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    The document discusses recent research showing that animals experience emotions similar to humans. Studies have found that chimpanzees, dogs, horses, rats, and birds can feel emotions like jealousy, grief, and love. Dogs in particular show traits like affection, sociability, emotional stability, and competence - similar to human personality categories. When dogs hear recordings of other dogs "laughing," they start to play, suggesting emotions. Animals also respond to anti-depressants, showing their brain chemistry is like humans. However, if animals truly have human emotions, it raises issues about keeping them caged or using them for testing.

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    The document discusses recent research showing that animals experience emotions similar to humans. Studies have found that chimpanzees, dogs, horses, rats, and birds can feel emotions like jealousy, grief, and love. Dogs in particular show traits like affection, sociability, emotional stability, and competence - similar to human personality categories. When dogs hear recordings of other dogs "laughing," they start to play, suggesting emotions. Animals also respond to anti-depressants, showing their brain chemistry is like humans. However, if animals truly have human emotions, it raises issues about keeping them caged or using them for testing.

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    The document discusses recent research showing that animals experience emotions similar to humans. Studies have found that chimpanzees, dogs, horses, rats, and birds can feel emotions like jealousy, grief, and love. Dogs in particular show traits like affection, sociability, emotional stability, and competence - similar to human personality categories. When dogs hear recordings of other dogs "laughing," they start to play, suggesting emotions. Animals also respond to anti-depressants, showing their brain chemistry is like humans. However, if animals truly have human emotions, it raises issues about keeping them caged or using them for testing.

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    READING: ANIMAL EMOTIONS

    You may love your pet, but does your pet love you? Most animal lovers claim that animals definitely
    experience emotions. Many stories are told of older dogs which become jealous when a new dog (or a baby)
    arrives home. For many years, however, scientists did not agree that animals experienced emotions; these
    behaviours, they said, were simply physiological reactions to external stimuli. But now new research is
    beginning to confirm that animals may have feelings much like ours.

    Recent studies have shown that many animals, including chimpanzees, dogs, horses, rats and birds,
    experience emotions similar to human jealousy, grief and love. Fear has also been widely observed by
    scientists, perhaps unsurprisingly, since this emotion helps in survival. Biologist Samuel Gosling claims that
    dogs exhibit four dimensions of personality: affection, sociability, emotional stability and “competence”, a
    combination of intelligence and obedience. These are similar to the categories of human personality
    generally found in basic psychological tests.

    Other studies have shown that when a recording of dogs’ “laughter” is played to other dogs, they start to
    play with each other, and rats which “laugh” frequently seem to be popular among other rats, offering
    further proof of emotions among animals. In addition, animals respond to anti-depressant drugs and this
    proves that their brain chemistry, which is affected by the drug, must be similar to ours. Experts believe
    that their emotions must therefore be similar, too.

    However, if animals really do have human-like emotions, there are some serious issues to consider: how fair
    is it, for example, for humans to keep animals in cages, or use them for pharmaceutical testing?

    1. Exercise 1: Are the following statements true or false? Write capital T for true statements and a capital F
    when false.

    1. Animal lovers believe that dogs can be jealous

    2. Scientists are beginning to believe that animals have got feelings

    3. Only humans experience both positive and negative emotions


    4. Dogs often "laugh" when they see other dogs playing

    2. Exercise 2. Answer the questions.


    1. What kind of emotions do animals usually show?
    2. Why do they respond to anti-depressant drugs?

    3. Find words in the text that mean the same as the following.
    -Feelings (par. 1) -Show (par. 2) -Take into account (par. 4)
    4. Writing: Do you think that animals should have the same rights as humans?

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