Do animals get the feelings of jealousy, hatred,etc and have individuality like humans?
Absolutely. Emotions are an important survival trait – for example, when a zebra runs from a lion, it is displaying fear. Without this emotion, the zebra would just stand there and get eaten – not a good strategy for the survival of the species. If a mother animal felt nothing for her young, she would not try to defend them when they were threatened – again, not good for the future of the species. For social animals, bonding with other members of their group is clearly important. Many social animals are known to mourn when a member of the group dies. Grey wolves mate for life, and there are known cases in which when one partner dies, the other stops eating until it too dies. This behaviour has also been seen in their descendants, domestic dogs – there are many records of dogs ‘pining away’ after the death of their owners. I find it both ridiculous and arrogant to suggest that of all the thousands upon thousands of animals on this planet, we are the only ones in which emotions have evol
