They Grieve, They Wait, They Hope: The Hearts We Overlook
Animals Have Emotional Intelligence? WHAT?! People have always looked at animals and thought, “Of course they just respond to what’s happening around them. They eat because they’re hungry, they run because they’re scared, and they reproduce because instinct told them to.” But what if things weren’t as simple as that? Despite the fact that many of us still assume animals to be emotionless, there is an overload of research over the last 40 years that has proved otherwise. While not in the same way that humans express and have emotions, animals possess emotions, and a lot of them. As this post will reveal. The more we research and learn about the animal kingdom, the harder it is to brush off the fact that animals go through these things. Joy, attachment, grief, and distress are just a few. This goes against the assumption that humans have had for thousands of years: that being able to feel and understand emotions is what sets us apart from t...
