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OrgoneConclusion
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Are there other animals that have a sense of humor?
#18981056 - 10/15/13 11:59 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Or are primates the only ones?
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Re: Are there other animals that have a sense of humor? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#18981077 - 10/15/13 12:05 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Lions play with they food in a sense thats a sense of humor Pretty sure dolphins laugh all the time too
Edited by Does (10/15/13 12:07 PM)
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Re: Are there other animals that have a sense of humor? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#18981086 - 10/15/13 12:07 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Are there other animals that have a sense of humor? [Re: LunarEclipse] 1
#18981092 - 10/15/13 12:08 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hyenas laugh but I dont feel like they understand what they laugh at
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Re: Are there other animals that have a sense of humor? [Re: LunarEclipse]
#18981094 - 10/15/13 12:09 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Too obvious.
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Re: Are there other animals that have a sense of humor? [Re: Does]
#18981109 - 10/15/13 12:12 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Does said: Hyenas laugh but I dont feel like they understand what they laugh at
It's a pack thing. You aren't supposed to understand, the joke is on you.
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Re: Are there other animals that have a sense of humor? [Re: LunarEclipse]
#18981113 - 10/15/13 12:13 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Humor is in the eye of the beholder.
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Re: Are there other animals that have a sense of humor? [Re: LunarEclipse]
#18981325 - 10/15/13 01:21 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
LunarEclipse said:
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Does said: Hyenas laugh but I dont feel like they understand what they laugh at
It's a pack thing. You aren't supposed to understand, the joke is on you.
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Re: Are there other animals that have a sense of humor? [Re: LunarEclipse]
#18981537 - 10/15/13 02:15 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Humor entails satisfaction if the cackling is coming from a place of satisfaction they got humor I guess
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Re: Are there other animals that have a sense of humor? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#18981539 - 10/15/13 02:16 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've heard that mice are ticklish, but that doesn't really necessitate humor...
If humor deals with language then I doubt other animals understand it anymore than they can learn a language
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Re: Are there other animals that have a sense of humor? [Re: Repertoire89]
#18981577 - 10/15/13 02:28 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Having lived with a bunch cats over the years, I have often contemplated the same question.
While I can prove nothing, I'm convinced that Cats do have a sense of humor, and I'm pretty sure that dogs do as well.
YMMV, natch.
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Re: Are there other animals that have a sense of humor? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#18981617 - 10/15/13 02:37 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Are there other animals that have a sense of humor? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#18981980 - 10/15/13 04:06 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Ok, I know you implied besides primates, but I'm gonna post this anyway.
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Re: Are there other animals that have a sense of humor? [Re: Sleepwalker]
#18982293 - 10/15/13 05:21 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Is play necessarily a subset of humor?
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Re: Are there other animals that have a sense of humor? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#18982570 - 10/15/13 06:32 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Are there other animals that have a sense of humor? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#18983812 - 10/15/13 10:39 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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OrgoneConclusion said: Is play necessarily a subset of humor?
Seems like they are intimately related to me, but maybe, like someone else stated, humor requires language.
Let's see what Google has to say on the matter:
hu·mor noun 1. the quality of being amusing or comic, esp. as expressed in literature or speech. "his tales are full of humor" 2. a mood or state of mind.
Hmm...I guess only the monkeys know for sure...
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Re: Are there other animals that have a sense of humor? [Re: Sleepwalker]
#18983865 - 10/15/13 10:54 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sleepwalker said: humor requires language.
Not sure about that myself, there's also slapstick comedy and the like. Not sure where the distinction lays, they're certainly different
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Re: Are there other animals that have a sense of humor? [Re: Repertoire89]
#18984003 - 10/15/13 11:22 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah, maybe not language, but a certain level of reflection?
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Re: Are there other animals that have a sense of humor? [Re: Diploid]
#18984233 - 10/16/13 12:12 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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looks like a tiger to me O.o
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Re: Are there other animals that have a sense of humor? [Re: Diploid]
#18985353 - 10/16/13 09:30 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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That was amusing Diploid. Thanks for posting.
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