Do animals experience mental illness?
That animals seemingly anticipate events should humble us more. Changes in groundwater chemistry, electromagnetic fields and sound waves make animals restless, distressed and even relocate
In the West it is seen as ‘woo’ to contemplate that energy/weather humans don’t *consciously* experience can affect our psychology,... See more
Rivax.comIf we can learn about human cognition, behaviour and pathology by studying insects, how does this blur the boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’?
David Waltner-Toews • On the shared genetic memories between us, the cat and the fly | Aeon Essays
You don’t immediately think, “This tiger needs to go to tiger therapy and get a prescription for tiger anti-depressants so it can feel better about living in a zoo and stop feeling sad about having to suppress its wild instincts”. You don’t think the tiger needs to “get over it” and make the most of its situation. You don’t consider showing the
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A GENERAL THEORY OF LOVE
dangers-a tacit embodiment of Pasteur's germ theory of disease, disgust affirms the invisible likelihood of contamination from rot ting foods and gelatinous excretions. Such lifesaving nauseous te vulsion is at least as ancient as the animal that takes most advantag of its existence: Mephitis mephitis, the striped skunk.
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