Animal feelings part 3: Heads, shoulders, knees and toes
How cool would it be to be able to read animals like we read other people? This idea isn’t as far-fetched as it may first appear
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Animal emotion part 2b: Pounding hearts and shaky bodies
How can we use a general framework of emotion to study it in animals? Here, I look at two ways: through physiological measures and behaviour.
Read MoreAnimal feelings part 2: Inside and Out
The next step on our journey into animal emotion, is to come up with a generalised framework for finding out what animals are feeling.
Read MoreAnimal feelings part 1b: Can animals feel emotions?
If you were to ask 50 years ago whether animals have emotions, the answer would likely have been ‘not at all’. But answering this question may not be as simple as 'yes' or 'no'.
Read MoreAnimal feelings part 1: What's an emotion anyway?
There are a number of prevailing theories about what emotions are and how they work, but how do we draw all these ideas together into something we can work with to study animal emotion?
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