Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2022/Animal emotion

Recommendation of a limitations section
Hey there, in your overview you mention that the study of emotions in non mammals is limited. It may be worthwhile to have this as a separate header/sub header and explore why this may be the case. U3196624 (discuss • contribs) 17:22, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

Source and suggestion
Hi there ! I am absolutely intrigued by your topic and found an interesting source that you might find beneficial ! This study looked at self-reports from a large sample of dog and cat owners and were asked questions about their pet's ability to display basic emotions and complex emotions and to what extent their pets mirrored these emotions. The results showed that the higher the attachment between owner and dog, the dog was more likely to display and understand all of these emotions. Cats on the other hand were only able to display, joy, sadness, disappointment, compassion, surprise and shame. I hope this helps you :)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08927936.2015.1075299 U3210431 (discuss • contribs) 22:36, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Recommended research
What an awesome topic! Research in this area would be really fascinating to conduct! I found two different studies which may be helpful your chapter. The first is an article about how elephants can count food using their sense of smell. While this may seem unrelated to your topic, it highlights a challenge in research on animal cognition and emotion because perception of the world can vary substantially based on primary sensory systems being different between species. Plotnik. (2019). Elephants have a nose for quantity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America., 116(25), 12566–12571. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1818284116

Elephants are cool so here is another article on how they experience death. They seem to have a general awareness of death and show compassion. Douglas-Hamilton. (2006). Behavioural reactions of elephants towards a dying and deceased matriarch. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 100(1-2), 87–102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2006.04.014

I've also heard that elephants, and crows? sometimes conduct funerals? I have no idea if this is true or not? Perhaps you could address some common urban legends such as these and find what research there is to support/refute these claims. Noah O&#39;Brien (discuss • contribs) 08:40, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Comments
Hi, the topic is really interesting, just be careful that using APA 7th formatting as your reference. I also give some suggestion in your chapter, feel free to check it out. Here are some reference that might be useful for your topic.

Sanders, C. R. (2003). Actions Speak Louder than Words: Close Relationships between Humans and Nonhuman Animals. Symbolic Interaction, 26(3), 405–426. https://doi.org/10.1525/si.2003.26.3.405

Myers, O. E., Saunders, C. D., & Birjulin, A. A. (2004). Emotional Dimensions of Watching Zoo Animals: An Experience Sampling Study Building on Insights from Psychology. Curator: The Museum Journal, 47(3), 299–321. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2151-6952.2004.tb00127.x

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Jingru shao 0906 (discuss • contribs) 17:25, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Possible Suggestion
Really good stuff! You may of already considered this but a possible future consideration and addition is Crows and other members of the Corvid family. Some examples for this are how some such as the Clark's Nutcracker is able to store large amounts of food and use spatial memory to recall where it stored them. Another example is how adaptive crows can be and how they've learnt to use human made objects as tools eg using lit ciggerates to get rid of parasites in their wings.

https://www.nature.com/articles/484453a BenjiD&#39;Ange (discuss • contribs) 08:45, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

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