Feeling Like We Do
Article on the similarities between rats and humans. Interesting bits:
- They laugh when tickled, especially when they’re young
- Rats dream as we dream, in epic narratives of navigation and thwarted efforts at escape
- Look forward to good sex, “They wiggle and paw at their ears, hop and dart, stop and flash a come-hither look backward.”
- One study showed that rats accustomed to good times tend to be optimists, while those reared in unstable conditions become pessimists.
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Brings this documentary, on animal emotion, to mind.
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