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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser observed what could be called embarrassment in a male rhesus monkey.

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