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We can get an idea of how happy an animal is by observing what they do.
Ferrets chirp when they are having a good time, horses will point their ears towards you and have a relaxed mouth, and parrots sing, whistle, or make a grinding, purring sound with their beak.
Play is one of the more reliable and universal ways to tell if a creature is content. Playful animals will jump into the air, pounce, kick their feet up while they run, and generally be more energetic than they need to be.
But for a more visual explanation, there's the Instagram account The Snuggle Is Real. It shares wholesome photos of both wild and domestic animals living the good life and has made quite a few new posts since our last publication on it, so we thought we can't let you fall behind on its content.
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Bella Fraval 3 years ago
Geez "HUNTING" FOR FOOD? when I was a human I just had to order from a talking machine to get a full gourmet meal. As a bird it takes ya a whole day just to find one worm #freakyfriday.
Cristian Gonzalez 3 years ago (edited)
I am a bird Fanatic I would LOVE to be a feather brain:]
According to Melissa Starling, a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sydney, who holds a BSc (Hons) in zoology and a Ph.D. in dog behavior, personality, emotions and cognition, we can often get a good idea if animals are happy or unhappy by looking at how they are behaving in general.
"A cat that purrs because it's happy may also be winding her body around your legs, or relaxed in your lap, have her tail high in the air, or roll over on her back," Starling said. "All this shows she is trusting and interested."
"Likewise, a rabbit grinding its teeth while relaxing will also likely be stretching its body out as well. You can tell how relaxed a rabbit is by how stretched out it is while resting. If a rabbit is in pain, it tends to hunch up and squeeze its eyes half shut like it is wincing. Animals that are relaxed and not tense are usually happy and content."
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Russ Whiteman 3 years ago
I'm nominating this as the new term for a group of meercats: a meercult! Genius, Matheus, sheer genius. :)
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
"Listen guys guys, listen...tomorrow is Greg's birthday and we haven't gotten him a present, any ideas? Is he looking? Act natural"
Lemonade Midnight 3 years ago
It seems appropriate that a group of meerkats is called a gang or a mob
D 3 years ago
How bizarre, for a second I thought this was one of those "rotting meat" flowers about to bloom
Autistic apricot 3 years ago
This is a heat lamp (from what I know) and if they are all under it to keep warm, I find that quite sad :(
Sarah Stalder 3 years ago
'Alright, guys we have a big night tonight. It's gonna be full of hijinks, tomfoolery and shenanigans. But first, let us pray'
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Alice Teasdale 3 years ago
Photoshop. Good photoshop, but photoshop. Note far left and right balls and lips are identical. Having said that puppo clearly had quite a few balls in his possession before being doctored
Corrsfan 3 years ago
I thought this dog had something around its mouth but you're telling me that is its actual mouth holding all those tennis balls?
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Kusotare 3 years ago
"When I said 'let's throw it against the wall and see what sticks', it was a FIGURE OF SPEECH!"
Cat Momma 3 years ago
They even climb those scary lookin dam walls with 89° slopes. They deffo made it. Be chill and enjoy
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Starling said we can also see what animals like to do by what they choose to come back to over and over again.
"If your animal chooses to lie in the sun or look for tasty treats or dig holes, then you know when they are doing that, they are probably happy," the researcher explained.
"So, to know when an animal is happy, we need to look at more than what one body part is doing, and we might need to watch them to get to know them."
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Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
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$cagsy 3 years ago
Good shout. I recently got banned for saying I didn't realise that Chris Rock was a comedian and that I would like to be with my father when he passes. I was gutted.
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Marion Friedl 3 years ago
An actual footage of me, enjoying my favourite vegetable broccoli, you can make a lot of meals with it, you can roast it, you can fry it, you can make casseroles with it, you can combine it with pasta, rice, potatoes, bulgur or whatever. Simply cooking it is a sin in my opinion, BTW, I´ve been veggie since 1985 yet, not vegan, but veggie.
AVGucky 3 years ago
Don't tell others that broccoli is yummy! At any buffet I always eat lots of yummy broccoli and cauliflower while other guests don't touch these veggies 😂 I'm joking, there's always enough to share happily!
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Lonecoolman 3 years ago
THANK YOU FOR POSTING. THAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME AND SO THEY ARE OUT THERE...THOSE COMMENT PEOPLE. LOL
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
×And now we return to our regularly scheduled post× First you gift me with that wheel of endless monotony, now this? I asked for something nice from the bakery - NOT BROCCOLI! Where's my bloody contract?
Cristian Gonzalez 3 years ago
I really like how no one is talking about this adorable hamster like HOW DARE YOU NOT TAKE ANY NOTICE TO THIS GACHADON CHEEKS ON THIS CHONKY BOI!!!>:W
coconut <3 3 years ago
my hammy does this with banana and nuts :) hamsters are cool and should not be abused the way they are.
Liz Reid 3 years ago
What do you do if you press the button by accident when scrolling ? If I do I press the upvote to try and redress the balance.
Peter 3 years ago
If you click the same arrow button again, it cancels your vote
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Katy McMouse 3 years ago
Anyone remember the Teletubbies and that nightmare inducing baby in the sun? Someone should've thought of this, instead.
Anthony Nizza 3 years ago
Yes that would have been way better then that horrific baby sun!
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Carolyn Risling 3 years ago
Life with a huge white dog goes better with Coke . . . . .
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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Huge lap dog who doesn’t know how big he is. I have a cat like that. He was the runt of his litter and is now a healthy 8 year old 15 pounder who thinks he’s still a little kitten.
The question of how do we know if our pets—especially the prehistoric ones—are content has been explored for centuries.
In 1872, Charles Darwin published a whole book on the subject, suggesting that humans and many animals express emotions in similar ways—if anything, emotions actually evolved before our species did.
But philosopher Thomas Nagel said that we’ll never know if this is true or not. In his paper 'What is it like to be a bat?' Nagel wrote that even if we spent our days “hanging upsidedown by one’s feet in an attic,” it’s impossible to know how a bat feels, and not even Batman has that kind of inner access.
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Louise B 3 years ago
My little boy was trying to describe a seal, he came up with 'You know, one of those puppy mermaids!' No way would I correct him.
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Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 3 years ago (edited)
Neither am I and I have the same goals
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2econdSelf 3 years ago
Not sure, but I bet even they thought the Cats movie was terrible.
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Robecca 3 years ago (edited)
If bears are so dangerous, then please explain those lil round ears and toe beans?
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
So do I, and then I realize that may just be the very last thing I would do.
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Patti Vance 3 years ago
this is not meant to racist or offensive...(isn't it sad i feel i have to put a disclaimer out there because some people will seize an opportunity?) but, does anyone else look at this and think of the portrait of whoopi goldberg done by annie lebowitz? (look it up)
Charlie Spring Heartstopper 3 years ago
Dear god I'm never going to unsee that! I require the unsee juice please!
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Lemonade Midnight 3 years ago
I don't get why this is on the list? It's just a picture of a chess board...
The Deez 3 years ago
OHMYGOSH! I think you're onto something! Picture this, if you will: two chess champions are facing off, but the pieces are all well trained dogs. The chess guys tell the dog handlers where they want them to move the dogs and they televise the event. They could call it The Dog's Gambit or something!
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Brie Sansotta 3 years ago
If a white dog is the king, shouldn't a black cat be the black queen?
But just because we aren't 100 percent sure how an animal feels, doesn’t mean they don’t feel something.
Dolphins, cows, chimpanzees, dogs, and even squirrels have similar emotional processing centers in the brain as humans, so at the very least, they would experience basic emotions like fear, anger, grief, and joy.
One group of scientists was so sure of this that they signed the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in 2012, acknowledging that all mammals and birds (and some invertebrates, like octopuses) are conscious creatures.
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Tempest 3 years ago
Finally found who’s been buying all those watermelons in the maths questions!
John Whick 3 years ago
And he would’ve gotten away with it if he didn’t have the irresistible urge to get a tummy rub
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Michelle M 3 years ago
Dorian is sleeping on 96 watermelons. If his age is 4 and the angle at which the sun hits the 17th watermelon is 47°, calculate the age (in milliseconds) of the watermelons.
Crene 3 years ago
😂 Maths questions be like this. Also u never stop looking for ''X''
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So that’s where the maths question dude is getting all the water melons
Plus, we've all witnessed heartfelt and heart-wrenching displays of animal emotions, like when Damini the elephant reportedly died of grief following the death of her pachyderm partner at the zoo.
Or when Christian the lion joyfully embraced the men who reared him after spending nine months apart.
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
"We ride at dawn giant one" "I'm a horse" "Onward at sunrise my equine stead"
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Charlie grace 3 years ago
I think this is my favourite. It doesn't look like this is their first time climbing that tree
Jason Leaf 3 years ago
When Jack reached his command post, he saw the world for what it really is.
Sleeping Solipsist 3 years ago (edited)
"Dave, take the dog out"....[Dad to Jimmy] :"Jimmy, take twiglet out for your mother".... [Jimmy to Cayla]...."Cayla, mom said you gotta take twiglet out" *Cayla*... "BUT MOoom, it's JIMMY'S turn to take him out of the tree!!!"
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Sabse 3 years ago (edited)
Perhaps only just seen. You can't get it out on your own.
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Down With Agent Hedgehog! 3 years ago
Cement crunching tortoise… CLEAN IT UP SOMEONE, IT COULD CLOG IT
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Sarah Stalder 3 years ago
That looks like someone stacked them on top of each other. I hope not.
Creature Cargeaux 3 years ago
No. Turtles do this all they time. I have 11 turtles & they all climb on each others backs to get closer to the heat lamp in their tub. Even though their tub is 700 gallons & has 4 separate platforms with heat lamps.... they still stack on top of one another. I didn't know they also did this in the wild though. See how he's spreading out his legs... he's sunbathing. He's up there on purpose. If someone stacked them they definitely wouldn't just sit there like that & spread their legs to sunbathe. Also, it would be pretty hard to do this to wild turtles on purpose.
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Creature Cargeaux 3 years ago
No turtles do this on purpose. I have pet turtles & they all do this in order to get closer to the heat source.
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Laura Jackson 3 years ago
Reminds me of the scene in Dirty Dancing when Johnny and Baby are practicing the lift in the water😂
Interestingly, scientists have shown rats exude just as much “happiness,” if not more, than other mammals.
In the ’90s, neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp made a surprising discovery: rats loved being tickled. Turns out, when rats play, they emit high-frequency chirps undetectable by the human ear. Using special equipment to isolate the sounds, Panksepp discovered when he tickled the rats, their feverish chirps were akin to giggling.
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Z Alexi 3 years ago
A polecat's a dark-brown weasel~~w/darker mask across eyes, yet there's no recorded case of one having Covid~19.
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Party Poison (They/Them) 3 years ago
WHAT is your name? WHAT is your quest? WHAT is your favorite animal?
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Pan Narrans 3 years ago
Predators are usually found on the highest vantage point in the region surveying their domain.
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Graham Chapman 3 years ago
if those apples are fermented, there's gonna be one hell of a hangover..
$cagsy 3 years ago
If you go down to the woods today, you're in for a big surprise. If you go down to the woods today, you'll never believe your eyes! For every bear that ever there was, is gathered there for certain because, today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
Terri Johnson 3 years ago
Not to worry! These are rescue bears being fed a treat. https://people.com/pets/bears-make-happy-noises-over-apples-video/
Pandasizing World Peace 3 years ago
Thank you, what a relief. Some of these comments had me worried.
Load More Replies... Roborowski 3 years ago
What many do not know. Snow White rejected the apple from the Evil Queen countless times before she finally accepted it
Jerry Ryan 3 years ago
It could be a bait trap used by some hunters I don't hunt but if that is what this is that's cheating on the hunters
Vanessa Richardson 3 years ago
I saw a show about this once—in some places you’re allowed to bait the bears like this during the off season all you’d like. You’re just not allowed to bait them during the hunting season. (I’m not a hunter either.)
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GoGoPDX 3 years ago
It is probably baiting unfortunately. I hope not, but it looks like it.
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Heather Lambie 3 years ago (edited)
Is this not bear baiting? If so those bears will be shot by hunters soon☹️
Johanna she/her 3 years ago
Look at the top left of the picture, we could make a movie out of that guy. Barry had just come back from the bathroom to notice they planned a party without him. He goes over to everyone and yells “what is going on here?!” They all stopped what they were doing to look at him, he was already running away, crying. His best friend chased after him but it was to late. Barry was lost. *queue dramatic music*
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Panda in the Fake South 3 years ago
He's body surfing that wave. He won't get pommeled he will ride it in
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Little Wonder 3 years ago
That cat is reconsidering every life choice that lead to this moment - I get the same expression on my face.
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Jason Leaf 3 years ago
This was the moment when Handyman Dad hopes he kept the receipt for the pet door.
Duesvolent90 3 years ago
Hey uh..You might want to come see what I did and I swear it was the cat's idea.
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Autistic apricot 3 years ago (edited)
I think this is the wrong photo, I don’t see anything
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Michelle M 3 years ago (edited)
Little did spotty know that he would soon become the back seat cover.
Sleeping Solipsist 3 years ago
Oh poor, naive Michelle.. *Spotty* is a designer and was fed up with his 100 siblings.
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Dolores, you have gone too far, yet again. We'll discuss this when we get home.
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Beautiful Tragedy 3 years ago
Why hello there my good sir, might I interest you in a monthly subscription to Doggos Weeky?
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M K Shaw 3 years ago
Please, cat lovers, cut that handle in half before you let them play in it!
Upstaged75 3 years ago
I was just about to post the same thing. My cat once stuck her head through the handle like that and proceeded to run around like a maniac with the bag stuck on her. All while I chased her around the house trying to get it off. After that I immediately cut the handles on those bags as soon as I got home.
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Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
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Adam Jeff 3 years ago
I disagree (although I didn't downvote you). I think that's exactly what the downvote button is for, to show you disagree with something. I usually don't continue to downvote if they're already at the 'this comment is hidden' stage though.
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Dillon Brown 3 years ago
31 actually, if you look at the bottom of a lof of these before you can vote on the article as a whole there is a little small grey spot that's say this was originally 31 but was cut down to 30. Sometimes the OG article can be hundreds of posts long.
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EVELIN MENDOZA SOTO 3 years ago
to be honest all these pictures are so cute these animals no cap
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
Friendly reminder: downvotes are NOT dislike buttons. Downvoting a comment just because you don't agree = not cool. If a comment gets downvoted, its author will get banned from the site. So please downvote only in case of obvious spam ("how to make cash") or if someone is literally harrassing a fellow panda
Adam Jeff 3 years ago
I disagree (although I didn't downvote you). I think that's exactly what the downvote button is for, to show you disagree with something. I usually don't continue to downvote if they're already at the 'this comment is hidden' stage though.
Load More Replies... Dillon Brown 3 years ago
31 actually, if you look at the bottom of a lof of these before you can vote on the article as a whole there is a little small grey spot that's say this was originally 31 but was cut down to 30. Sometimes the OG article can be hundreds of posts long.
Load More Replies... EVELIN MENDOZA SOTO 3 years ago
to be honest all these pictures are so cute these animals no cap
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