Animal Emotions! How Do They Differ From Ours - Apes?

Hi!

Lust is one example - Why do animals feel the need to copulate?
Because they are programmed to. Nevertheless 'Lust' is the driving force.

Mark...

And we are not program the same way?

Hi Bill!

Of course! We are apes. I am trying to seperate us from the thread though. But don't perceive us apes any differently.

Some do (most). And I would like to gather the views thereof.

Do you have any?

Thank you Bill!
Mark...

Fear! All animals Fear. Some who are not predated upon, less so, but they run like the wind when there is a fire on the horizon. And they take refuge from a storm.

Saddness! Dogs and elephants are probably two of the best examples of this.

Your thread title was how animal’s emotions differ from ours and for the most part, in my opinion they do not do so for the higher animals at least.

In fact, Mark humans have more in common with all the higher mammals then not.

Hell the very reason we can form strong emotional two-way bonds for example with dogs and cats is for the very reason of share emotions.

Our greater intellect resulted in a far more complex ways that we express our emotions but evolution had given us similar emotions, as it had given us similar lungs and similar hearts and similar bones and on and one with the other living creatures around us.

Your list of not share emotions would be a great deal shorter, in fact off hand I am drawing a blank on what emotions humans have that say dogs do not also share if bare of some of the intellectual overtones.

Hi Bill!

I absolutely agree. I bounced this off another thread where certain folk were suggesting that animals had no emotions as such.

I disagree with this - Hence this thread.

Some were saying that animals don't have the human emotion we call 'guilt'. I believe they share the same emotions as us "apes".

You have clearly not been attending the other thread. I will send you its title in a moment.

Kind regards!
Mark...

Hi Bill!

"What Makes Humans Human"

The name of the thread - Last few pages should make you see what I mean.

Mark...

Dogs had the emotion of guilt however I had as yet found it in any of my cats.

And when I get a chance I will look at the other thread.

Thanks for pointing it out to me.

Mark the search function find the thread What Makes Humans Human but for some reason will not take me to it.

Hi Bill!

I don't know how to send links to threads either.

It's Littlek's thread - So click her profile and check her thread box.

That should work!

Kind regards to you Bill!
Mark...