Comments on: Dogs Demand Fair Play, or They Won’t Play at All

By: Third Eye

Third Eye — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:48:21 +0000

I wonder if that is an innate instinct in every mammal, mh…

By: TONY

TONY — Mon, 04 May 2009 03:15:02 +0000

gr8 resrch bro

By: Tommy

Tommy — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:26:29 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with the comments before me. It’s easy to see that, what science calls lower life forms, experience many emotions such as happiness, sadness, excitement etc. Why should we think this would be any different? Hopefully “discoveries” like this will revolutionize the way animals are treated. Especially when it comes to experiments that often result in the death of the animal…

By: Mus

Mus — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:32:08 +0000

The one thing I didn’t like about this article was this bit: ““They can suffer simple forms of many emotions we once thought only primates could experience””

Now, how in the world do they determine that an animal’s emotions are any more or less complex than any other’s? What does it even MEAN to say that X’s jealousy is simpler than Y’s jealousy? I for one think they’re simply just parroting the nonsense they’ve heard elsewhere… which I CAN say is much simpler than actually thinking about it.

By: hanky

hanky — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:45:21 +0000

Reminds me of the time my dog cried for an hour when she didnt get any pizza after a pizza delivery man knocked on my door by mistake.

By: nick

nick — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:21:29 +0000

Androcentrism will exist as long as we keep calling things ‘unnatural’ and considering ourselves separate from nature.

At least science is finally learning that it’s easier to just copy solutions nature has been designing for the last nigh-14 billion years than to try to dream up novel solutions to problems.

By: Larian LeQuella

Larian LeQuella — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:01:54 +0000

I am still amazed at how egocentric humans are in dealing with the vast array of species on this planet. Even simple observation by non-scientists show incredibly complex behaviours and thought processes by animals, yet we still somehow think of them as “unworthy” life forms. The common evolutionary train of higher order mammals has led to many behaviors that were once thought to be the exclusive domain of humans. I hope this is the start of the end of human-centric thoughts. We’re really not all that special, get used to it, live with it, and move on!