Can animals cry or laugh? Detailed answer

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Can animals cry or laugh?

If you have a pet, a cat or a dog, for example, then you are probably very attached to him and maybe sometimes you feel like he is like a person. As if he can express his feelings in the same way as a person his emotions, that is, cry, laugh, and so on.

But in reality this is not so. Only a person can cry and laugh, and no one else. Of course, animals can whine, whine when they feel pain, but they don’t have tears.

But this does not mean at all that they do not have tear fluid in their eyes, it is simply used only to protect the cornea. To cry, you need to be able to think and be emotionally sensitive. Even children know how to cry not from birth. The baby only screams, but does not cry at all.

Crying to some extent replaces the conversation. When we cannot express what we are experiencing, then we replace it with crying. This is a reflex, it does not depend on us and helps to get rid of the feelings that overwhelm us.

Laughter is also a human phenomenon. Sometimes it may seem that this or that animal is laughing, but this is of a completely different nature than human laughter. This is not a consequence of certain mental processes or emotions inherent in the human reaction.

When we laugh at a joke, our mind simply finds it funny. There are many types of laughter and the causes that cause it: curiosity (for example, a big and fat man with a tiny umbrella), comedy (clown), humor (jokes) and so on. We may even laugh contemptuously.

Psychologists believe that laughter is a social phenomenon. We laugh when we are in the company of people who think something is funny. Animals cannot laugh for any of these reasons.

Author: Likum A.

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In 1999, a perfectly preserved skeleton of an ancient mammal, which is approximately 120 million years old, was found in the Chinese province of Liaoning. This is a real chimera, an intermediate link between reptiles and mammals: the front part of the skeleton of a small animal looks like a rat, and the hind legs, tail and pelvic bones are like those of a lizard.

The oldest previously known mammals are 20-40 million years younger.

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