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Do animals have feelings?

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.'.....

(https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8444185/Swan-dies-broken-heart-teenage-yobs-killed-unborn-cygnets-smashing-eggs.html)


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....

(https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7629987/Stray-puppy-cries-anguish-refuses-leave-dead-body-friend-hit-car.html)

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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