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Animals are creatures that just by their presence make us feel better and happier, because they have a very special energy and that, almost always, they are tender and kind-looking.
They always make us smile and laugh, but I've always wondered if the opposite happens, that is, do animals laugh? Do you have the ability to pull off a smile when they're happy?
That's why we investigated more about this theme and I tell you that the conclusions are very interesting. If you want to know if our wild friends can laugh, keep reading this Animal Expert article and you'll have the answer.
Life can be fun...
...and not just for humans, animals can also have a sense of humour. There are studies that say that many animals such as the dogs, chimpanzees, gorillas, rats and even birds can laugh. Maybe they can't do it the way we can, but there are signs that they make sounds like squeaks, something similar to our laughter but different at the same time, to express when they are in a positive emotional state. In fact, it has been proven that some animals are very fond of being tickled.
The work that experts have been doing for many years is not only based on knowing the art of animal laughter, but also on learning to identify and recognize each laugh within the wild world. The primate family may laugh, but they make gasping sounds, grunts, screams and even purrs. When we see our puppies breathing quickly and intensely, it is not always because they are tired or their breathing is fast. A long sound of this type could well be a smile and, it should be noted, it has properties that calm the tension of other dogs.
Rodents also love to laugh. Specialists and experts have conducted tests in which by tickling the back of the neck or inviting them to play, rats make noises in the ultrasonic range that scientists have deduced is the equivalent of human laughter.
What else do scientists say?
According to a study published in a well-known American scientific journal, the neurological circuits that produce laughter have always existed, housed in older regions of the brain, so animals can perfectly express joy through the sound of laughter, but not they vocalize laughter in the same way that human beings do.
In conclusion, man is not the only animal capable of laughing and to feel happiness. It is already public knowledge that all mammals and also birds, experience positive emotions, and although they do not show them with a smile because at the skeletal-body level they cannot and this is indeed a human capacity, animals do. through other behaviors that translate into the same thing.
In other words, animals have their very personal way of letting us know they are happy, like when dolphins jump out of water or cats purr. These are all forms of emotional expression analogous to our smiles. Animals surprise us every day, they are emotionally much more complex creatures than we thought until now.
