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In today's world where there is much suffering and fear, I think empathy is in short supply. What exactly is empathy? Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary offers this definition: “... the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner ...”
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A new study has found that chickens might be able to "feel the pain" of other chickens.
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Another interesting bit about the emotional lives of animals: Proceedings of the Royal Society B (h/t Mongabay) has published a study showing that mother hens show both physical and behavioral responses ...
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British scientists who looked into the behavior of chickens and say they found hints of empathy being shown - the ability to see things from another's point of view - has not been received well from egg producers who fear people will now refuse to buy battery farmed eggs.
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A new study has shown that empathy, long thought to be a uniquely human characteristic, is not just the preserve of homo sapiens. Gallus gallus — or the common hen, to you and I — may not be so bird-brained after all. Researchers at Bristol University ...
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The bond between dogs and their owners may be deeper than we thought, according to research that suggests the pets may share their owners' emotions. When the animals are confronted with a human displaying strong feelings, they themselves produce a similar emotional response, the researchers found.
"Also, it has been reported that untrained dogs may be sensitive to human emergencies and may act appropriately to summon help, which, if true, suggests empathic perspective taking."
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A recent study has discovered that chickens feel empathy towards others especially their own chicks. These results could have huge implications on the welfare of farmed chickens and those used in animal testing labs.
About bloody time...I'm all for that! If I had my way all chickens would be roaming free on 'real' Free range farms where their welfare is closely monitered.
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Researchers at the University of Porto, in Portugal, explained that dogs have a quality called ‘emotional contagion,’ which allows them to respond even beyond the ability to react to people’s emotions.
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Silva and Sousa argue that dogs have the capacity to empathize with humans for three main reasons: ‘Dogs originated from wolves, highly social animals that engage in cooperative activities and are believed to have some ability to empathize with their fellow wolves.
According to a recent study in the latest issue of ‘Biology Letters’, reported in the science press, dogs appear to empathize with us, to the point that some companion dogs even seem to take on the emotions of their sick or distressed human friends. Does my dog feel sad when I feel sad – is this a sensible question at all we could dare to ask in adult society with a straight face? This where the neurologists and the evolutionary psychologists must take over.
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Dr Karine Silva said: ‘A study showing that dogs behave as “upset” as children when exposed to familiar people faking distress strongly suggests sympathetic concern. ‘Also, it has been reported that untrained dogs may be sensitive to human emergencies and may act appropriately to summon help, which, if true, suggests empathic perspective taking.’
The researchers believe there are three main reasons for dogs empathising with humans. Dogs originated from wolves which have developed empathy towards other species.
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Dr. Friederike Range of the University of Vienna in Austria led the research, which followed up on previous findings that canines empathize with people in mimicking yawns as well as changing the sound of their bark to match a human caregiver's regional accent. This study, however, was the first to show the animals' voluntary tendency to mirror human body movements, as they followed the actions of the humans in opening doors with their paws or teeth. In this research, the canines also attempted to imitate the people even when doing so was not rewarded.
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The notion that animals are incapable of feelings is being revised by new observations of animal behavior that reveal emotions like empathy.
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A worried mother is often called a mother hen, and new research is showing how true this expression may be. When her chicks are in distress, a hen will react physically, showing empathy. ...
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You might think chickens are way down the pecking order in the animal kingdom when it comes to emotional intelligence. But it turns out that mother hens are such attentive, caring parents that they 'feel' their chicks' pain. ...
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Chickens do more than scratch the ground, cluck and lay eggs – scientists say they display empathy with their young just like humans. Empathy, long thought to be a defining human trait, causes one individual to be affected by the emotional state of .
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Dogs appear to empathize with us, to the point that some therapy dogs even seem to take on the emotions of their sick or distressed human charges. The matter is more complicated than you might think, because researchers need to tease apart true empathy from a phenomenon known as "emotional contagion."
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Domestic chickens display signs of empathy, the ability to ''feel another's pain'' that is at the heart of compassion, a study has found. The discovery has important implications for the welfare of farm and laboratory animals, say researchers. ...
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DOG owners have always known it. But academics yesterday made it official: Man’s best friend can understand and share feelings with humans.
And this empathy goes beyond just spotting a change in an owner’s mood. Dogs take it a step further and actually comfort owners when they are down.
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Empathy Rabbit says. 'Don't eat anything with a mother or that has a face'
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Dr. Frans de Waal argues that human morality would be impossible without certain emotional building blocks that are clearly at work in chimp and monkey societies.
Social living requires empathy, which is especially evident in chimpanzees, as well as ways of bringing internal hostilities to an end. Every species of ape and monkey has its own protocol for reconciliation after fights, Dr. de Waal has found. If two males fail to make up, female chimpanzees will often bring the rivals together, as if sensing that discord makes their community worse off and more vulnerable to attack by neighbors. Or they will head off a fight by taking stones out of the males’ hands.
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