Do animals feel love, anger, or empathy? Researchers have long dismissed such ideas as anthropomorphism, arguing that attributing human emotions to animals was unscientific.

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Animal Sentience: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Animal Feeling is a new and rather unique online journal, and I was thrilled when its founders, Andrew Rowan and Jonathan Balcombe, along with editor ...

In CUriosity, experts across the CU Boulder campus answer pressing questions about humans, our planet and the universe beyond. This week, Marc Bekoff, professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology ...

For years, scientists have tried to understand how animals express emotions. Unlike humans, they cannot describe their ...

When I received Multiple Gold Medal–Winning Author Milana Anderson's latest book Animal Fairy Tales: Bedtime Animal Short Stories for Kids (Book Ten: Touch of Love) and started reading it, I couldn't ...

We humans often say that a growling dog is "angry" or a purring cat is "happy." But those terms are of little use to scientists like David Anderson, a biology professor at Caltech who studies the ...

Learn how people across cultures accept animal empathy while viewing human thinking as fundamentally different. Ask whether animals think and feel, and people around the world tend to agree: yes — but ...

When I qualified as a vet in 1981, I would have agreed with Marlene Zuk that we should question the trend of attributing human-like motivations and feelings to animals, such as bees “playing” with ...

The dog and animal lovers at Ginger Cat disprove the myth that animals lack feelings with touching clips. Watch: Rep. Elise Stefanik booed off stage by crowd in New York Mysterious Object Hurtling ...