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Animals understand love and care?

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Sikotic™:
The minute I jump out of my bed, my dog comes running into my room bowing before me and shit. I go to the kitchen, bust out the Purina One and he doesn't bother me until later on in the day.

That's true love.

Kill:
It really ain't as simple as some of you are trying to make it. Of course animals can't think in the same intellectual way that humans can, but some more intelligent animals have a similar system of emotions built into them as we do. Homo sapiens is just the animal with the most highly developed brain in the areas responsible for human culture, but other than that, it's not like we're anything special in a biological sense.

This is interesting too

Cheese:
This actually is an interesting question. Some theories assume animal behaviour is simply the reaction to a stimulus, whereby only humanbeings have the capability to interpret a stimulus.
Other theories claim some animals have the capability to interpret a stimulus too.
I really wouldn't know the answer. Is animal behaviour just the result of conditioning and reinforcement, whereby emotions are just human interpretations of animal behaviour? Does a dog really show "affection (which is a concept made up my humanbeings)" when a human is feeding it, or is his behaviour simply reinforcing the human to give it more food?

Now_Im_Not_Banned:
Has anyone heard of the story where a guy was being attacked by a Grizzly bear, only to be saved by his dog?... the dog ended up dying, but if that's not love and care, then I dunno what is. Point is, animals can feel emotions just like humans can. Just because they are not as complex as us doesn't mean they don't understand love. If you enforce positive energy on a cat, it will purr. If the cat loves you, it will come back to you and purr every time it feels the love. When I sleep at my girls house, the cat wakes me up by laying on my chest and purring. Then when I start petting him, he rubs his head into my face. Anyone who thinks animals are all about food is lost.

Cheese:

--- Quote from: Now_I_Know on April 18, 2008, 02:44:14 PM ---Has anyone heard of the story where a guy was being attacked by a Grizzly bear, only to be saved by his dog?... the dog ended up dying, but if that's not love and care, then I dunno what is. Point is, animals can feel emotions just like humans can. Just because they are not as complex as us doesn't mean they don't understand love. If you enforce positive energy on a cat, it will purr. If the cat loves you, it will come back to you and purr every time it feels the love. When I sleep at my girls house, the cat wakes me up by laying on my chest and purring. Then when I start petting him, he rubs his head into my face. Anyone who thinks animals are all about food is lost.

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So where's your evidence animals can feel emotions just like humans can? Love is concept made up by humanbeings, which maybe only exists in our own minds. The concept of love actually differs a lot among different cultures. Just because you interpret the animal's behaviour as loving, doesn't have to mean the animal actually feels the love? The cat, for example, knows that purring will be rewarded with petting, which gonna make pur it even more. Where's the love in that cyclus? And the dog trying to save it's owner is simple group behaviour. That's how wolves support eachother in the wild too. There's no love involved in that, it's just altruïstic behaviour.
I'm not saying animals can't feel love, but for now I don't see any real scientific evidence.

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