Emotion in animals

the ad, ti gives me the sense of bringing out the inner animal in a person. A person has an inner animal inside them just like a book that describes someone’s life story. I choose this ad because it correlates with the Penguin books ad. I see the resembles in…

Becker English 126 10 March 2016 A Remembrance of Horror The essays in discussion for this assignment are “Philosophers and the Animals” by J. M. Coetzee and "Can the Treatment of Nonhuman Animals Be Compared to the Holocaust?" by David Sztybel. The first essay, “Philosophers and the Animals” is from J. M. Coetzee’s book The Lives of Animals. The essay introduces the readers to an author of many novels, Elizabeth Costello, her son John Bernard and her daughter-in-law Norma…

In this paper, I want to focus on how society talks about pets and the ethical concerns around owning different animal beings. Through my experience of owning a turtle, I have realized he is not what anyone would consider a “pet” because society doesn’t regard him as a normal “pet”. I will argue the social construct of “pets” is harmful because it results in humans treating animal beings unequally. Childhood stories, fables and television portray turtles as being slow and cautious, which gave…

Animals in captivity is not a surprising news. In fact, many animals have been domesticated to provide companionship and aid to humans, but we do not think about the consequences of these actions. We have a tendency to ignore some aspects as long as it benefits us. Nature has its own course and have survived even without us. Therefore, we should meddle with things unless it is necessary, for example endangered animals. The bottom-line is that just because we are more intelligent and able than…

Statement: Sea lions and dolphins affect the community and the world by helping humans. Ronald Reagan once said, “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” This quote is true for animals because animals can’t help every animal or every human, but they can always help someone. Animals choose to help humans, they don’t have to, but they do. Sea lions and dolphins both help people in many different ways, they can't help everyone though. Sea lions and dolphins affect the community…

August 14, 2014 in the animals section of Nature Would news on the natureworldnews.com website. The original per-reviewed article that corresponds with this article is called Yawn Contagion in Humans and Bonobos: Emotional Affinity Matters More than Species which was published in PeerJ on August 12, 2014. The researchers, Palagi et al (2014) were looking at the evolutionary aspects of empathy. Affective empathy (feelings) is the ability to sense and share another’s emotions, but cognitive…

nourishing your pet the right way and the pet could get taken away from you as if they are a mistreated child. And that is just way too much for an animal (Shea). In the article, Personhood for Pets? How the Human-Animal Bond Has Evolved, Tanya Lewis mentions how dogs started out helping humans hunt. But all of a sudden (suddenly), people started treating the animals more like pets. If a dog is supposed to help a person hunt, they should not need personhood granted to them. The reason that dogs…

hindered him from getting in touch with the crucial components of being human. Humanity can be defined as one possessing sympathetic qualities and having an overall generous disposition, which contrasts to the nature of animals, since they solely depend on surviving. Although some animals may take care of their kin, the intention is to prolong their genetic makeup, which is another way to self-serve. However, humans have the capacity to care for other living and nonliving things despite a…

Animals are thought to be separate from humans. However, they both are in the animal kingdom, and even as mammals they share certain characteristics: they are vertebrates, endothermic, have body hair, and mammary glands. These characteristics are what relates animals to humans. Although, there are various aspects which distinguishes an animal from a human. Humans are self-conscious beings, who have emotions, language, a complex thought process, and philosophical thinking. These are the key…

Animal abuse laws have come a long way over the years, but animal abuse is still an issue today. In fact, neglect which is the most popular type of abuse is overlooked tremendously. Usually, most people don’t care about animals because they don’t have a pet, or it doesn’t affect them directly. Now imagine, if it was your child, your friend, or your family, animals aren't any different from people, they have emotions like us and can feel pain. So, would you leave a child on the streets? Stuff…