Articles for tag: animal emotions, animal intelligence, behavioral science, emotional connection, empathy in animals, human emotion research

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The Animal Scientists Believe Best Represents Human Emotion

Suhail Ahmed

Every day, in kitchens and parks and hospital corridors, an animal reads our faces, tunes into our voices, and answers with quiet, unmistakable feeling. For years, the mystery lingered: were we just projecting, or was something deeper at work? Now, a wave of studies has pulled the curtain back, revealing startling overlaps between human emotion ...