Have you thought about animals having feelings and emotions ? Maybe we fail to realize or we are ignorant about it but there is a closer link between humans and animals.
Animals have a way to respond to the environment just like humans do; reacting emotionally to others and even becoming stressed and anxious in times of danger. These emotions have a marked effect on their behaviour but while researchers may never be able to know how animals actually feel, studies have found that there are definite behavioural similarities in emotional expression between animals and humans.
Of course, animals can't express themselves linguistically or by words
but they show it through actions. Here a few stories to prove that animals do
have emotions and feelings.
1) Swan 'dies from a broken
heart' after teenage yobs killed her unborn cygnets when they smashed her eggs
with bricks
A mother swan is said to have died from a 'broken
heart' after heartless vandals smashed her unhatched eggs with bricks.
A group of teenage boys killed the unborn cygnets
after hurling rocks and bricks at them last month in Bolton, Greater
Manchester.
The mother was found dead earlier this week, not
long after the father swan disappeared, Manchester Evening News reported.
The yobs were spotted throwing rocks and bricks at
the swans's nest along Manchester Canal in Kearsley on May 20.
Witnesses said they were aiming for the island
where the swans had made a nest and three of the six eggs were left smashed.
Wildlife activists, who were monitoring the swans,
said more eggs were lost in recent weeks, leaving just one surviving egg.
They added that the father swan was driven away
from the nest due to stress two weeks ago and has not returned since.
The female swan has been harassed by moor
hens, ducks and a dog since her unhatched eggs were first attacked.
The heartbroken activists sadly found the female
swan dead in her nest earlier this week.
Activist Sam Woodrow said: 'There's not much I can
say really.
'She probably died of a broken heart as she had a
partner for life and he was driven away by stress.'
According to Swan Lifeline, it has been known for
swans to die of a broken heart if they lose their partners, as swans generally
mate for life.
Posting on Facebook, Michael Mason said: 'Her
mate left her on her own and sadly I was informed this morning she was found
slumped in her nest dead. I just feel like crying.'.....
2) Stray puppy cries in
anguish as it refuses to leave the dead body of friend hit by a car
This is the heartbreaking
moment a stray puppy cried over the dead body of its friend, refusing to leave
its side.
The video - seen over five million
times online - shows the puppy standing over its dead companion, who had
been hit by a car in the county of Daying, Suining City in south-western China's Sichuan Province.
A pedestrian named Mr Xiong came over to help the puppy and was stunned by its refusal to leave its dead friend....
Apart from these to news
articles, you can always check out Dean Schneider's Youtube channel
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIsz3XD8_E1ebhE4YScWeJg) or
Steve Irwin's
(https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=steve+irwin). You may also watch National Geography or Animal Planets.
Such shows help you to understand and actually prove to your that animals do
have feelings and emotions.
We may not be aware of it because we might think they are animals,
they don't do what humans do. But guess what, they can feel what we feel, they
can think alike. It's just that they can't speak or write it down, so they show
it through their body language.
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