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Do Animals Have A Sense of Humor?

We know that some animals, like dogs and apes, can laugh. Can an animal also have a sense of humor? Join Anthony as he discusses how Koko the Gorilla and some other animals show promising signs. Read More: Reconstructing the Evolution of Laughter in Great Apes and Humans http://www.cell.com/current-biology/a... "Human emotional expressions, such as laughter, are argued to have their origins in ancestral nonhuman primate displays." "Laughing rats and the evolutionary antecedents of human joy? http://web.archive.org/web/2011071610... "One of Paul MacLean's lasting insights was the recognition that subcortical regions of the human mammalian brain contain a variety of evolved emotional systems for the governance and behavior." Laughing Rats?: Playful Tickling Arouses High-Frequency Ultrasonic Chirping in Young Rodents http://falk.mccormick.northwestern.ed... "In this reprint of a seminal article, once considered quite controversial, the authors discuss their radical claim that rats laugh." Ultrasonic Communication in Rats: Can Playback of 50-kHz Calls Induce Approach Behavior? http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3... "Rats emit distinct types of ultrasonic vocalizations, which differ depending on age, the subject's current state and environmental factors." Tickled Apes Yield Laughter Clue http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/na... "New research has given credence to the idea that laughter evolved in a common ancestor of the great apes and humans." Dogs Actually Can Smile - Animalist    • Dogs Actually Can Smile   Rats Laugh, but Not Like Humans http://www.scientificamerican.com/art... "Once, while in a drowsy, altitude-induced delirium 35,000 feet somewhere over iceland, I groped mindlessly for the cozy blue blanket poking out beneath my seat, only to realize-to my unutterable horror-that I was in fact tugging soundly on a wriggling, sock-covered big toe." Entry 4: Do animals have a sense of humor? http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/cu... "Right now, in a high-security research lab at Northwestern University's Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics, scientists are tickling rats." No Joke: Animals Laugh, Too http://www.livescience.com/6946-joke-... "Life can be funny, and not just for humans." Laughter in animals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter... "Laughter in animals other than humans describes animal behavior which resembles human laughter." Rats' brains are more like ours than scientists previously thought http://news.psu.edu/story/270321/2013... "Neuroscientists face a multitude of challenges in their efforts to better understand the human brain." Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights http://books.google.com/books?id=2Wq7... Koko (gorilla) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(go...) Koko is a female gorilla who, according to Francine 'Penny' Patterson, her long-term trainer, is able to understand more than 1,000 signs based on American Sign Language, and understand approximately 2,000 words of spoken English." How Laughter Works http://science.howstuffworks.com/life... "The physiological study of laughter has its own name -- gelotology." Watch More: Why Do Hyenas Laugh?    / animalistnetwork   TestTube Wild Card http://testtube.com/dnews/dnews-440-s... Animals Have Human Emotions    • Animals Have Human Emotions   ____________________ DNews is dedicated to satisfying your curiosity and to bringing you mind-bending stories & perspectives you won't find anywhere else! New videos twice daily. Watch More DNews on TestTube http://testtube.com/dnews Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... DNews on Twitter   / dnews   Anthony Carboni on Twitter   / acarboni   Laci Green on Twitter   / gogreen18   Trace Dominguez on Twitter   / trace501   DNews on Facebook   / discoverynews   DNews on Google+ http://gplus.to/dnews Discovery News http://discoverynews.com Download the TestTube App: http://testu.be/1ndmmMq