Actually, there are many human-like emotions that other animals have. All mammals have a neocortex and a limbic system, the sites that control emotion in humans. And yes, that includes your meat mammals: Even cows in a way have "best friends" and will feel stressed if separated from them. There's also a neocortex homolog found in birds. There ARE many emotions that humans feel that some other mammals don't feel and many are overestimated by modern society, but there's evidence that it does go beyond simple satiety. It starts to become questionable once you go below mammals on the phylogeny.
BTW, 75% of all animals are insects (which lack vertebrate brain), so you TECHNICALLY may be right but if by "animal" you're referring to animals like cats, cows, pigs, etc. then they do have fairly complex emotions.
IIN that it bothers me when people impose human emotions onto animals?
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Actually, there are many human-like emotions that other animals have. All mammals have a neocortex and a limbic system, the sites that control emotion in humans. And yes, that includes your meat mammals: Even cows in a way have "best friends" and will feel stressed if separated from them. There's also a neocortex homolog found in birds. There ARE many emotions that humans feel that some other mammals don't feel and many are overestimated by modern society, but there's evidence that it does go beyond simple satiety. It starts to become questionable once you go below mammals on the phylogeny.
BTW, 75% of all animals are insects (which lack vertebrate brain), so you TECHNICALLY may be right but if by "animal" you're referring to animals like cats, cows, pigs, etc. then they do have fairly complex emotions.