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We've often come across these stories, as well as analysis of the similarities between animals and humans when it comes to empathy and reciprocity (especially in evolutionary terms, and especially in dealing with primates), but I personally never get tired of reading them.
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A recent study published in the journal Biology Letters found dogs yawn when humans do, suggesting that canines may have the capacity for empathy. In their experiment, researchers from the University of London yawned at 29 dogs. Seventy-two percent yawned back—a higher frequency than humans, who typically yawn back 45 to 60 percent of the time.
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Vancouver Aquarium: two sea otters float around, napping, holding hands.
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Research around the world demonstrates the tremendous benefits of owning a pet. Studies show that children who own pets have more empathy and nurturing ability, and as they grow into adulthood, essential skills to develop meaningful relationships.
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The article also discusses how people come to have empathy, and it turns out it is a combination of our experiences, what we see, and what we are taught, among other things. It is important to teach empathy to our children. There are ways we can go about doing this. Here are several I came up with:
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How children treat animals is usually how they treat other people. Teach your child to have empathy and respect for all living things. Empathy and respect are taught life skills. How you treat animals is usually how you treat other living things.
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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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Most people reading this blog will have heard of the “selfish gene”—the idea, formally defined by W.D. Hamilton and popularized by Richard Dawkins, that what matters from the perspective of evolution is not organisms, but genes. Those genes that maximize their chances of survival—regardless of what happens to individuals—will be the ones that come to predominate.
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So far, contagious yawning has been observed in five mammals: humans, chimpanzees, stumptail macaques, gelada baboons, and domesticated dogs, though the interpretation of the data has been inconsistent. There is still no consensus on the function of contagious yawning, or even whether it exists in the first place.
But now, Matthew W. Campbell and Frans de Waal of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University have proposed a more nuanced view of contagious yawning. They wondered if social group membership could affect the transmission of a contagious yawn. After all, if empathy is indeed the thing underlying contagious yawning, then contagious yawning should show many of the same behavioral signatures that empathy itself does.
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Decades of evidence show that a child's attitude toward animals can predict future behavior. According to published reports, in every highly publicized school shooting, one warning sign appeared consistently: All the young killers abused or killed animals before turning on their classmates.
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Developing compassion and empathy in all people is critically important, and something we need sorely. In our present world riddled with sarcasm, greed, hate, deceit, a sense of entitlement and self-centeredness, compassion and empathy are things that seem to be slipping away.
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A recent study concludes domestic chickens display signs of empathy — the act of understanding and entering into another’s feelings.
These findings are particularly significant in view of the deeply criminal treatment animals receive on factory farms daily, which has been exposed in numerous published accounts and films like Farm to Fridge, narrated by actor James Cromwell. The study was funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Research Council’s Animal Welfare Initiative, whose findings were released this month in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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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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