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Re:Young Gorillas Observed Dismantling Poacher Snares by jacobolus on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @02:00AM (#4284531)
Passion = “any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling”. It’s definitely possible to witness powerful emotions in non-human animals. Nothing inherently human about it.
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Re:Young Gorillas Observed Dismantling Poacher Snares by a_bonobo on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @07:00PM (#4288507)
How do you know that animals have emotions, or feelings? How do you know that they have something similar, or nothing like that?

Just because you use your knowledge of human emotions on your dog's behaviour doesn't mean that your dog is capable of fear (it's likely, but absolutely impossible to prove).

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