Do Animals Shed Emotional Tears?
This is the title of chapter 14 in William Frey’s book (Morgan cited it in The Scars of Evolution but left off the main title, leaving only the sub-title, and also left off Frey’s co-writer). In it Frey looks at evidence, both scientific and anecdotal, for emotional tearing in non-human animals. His conclusion opened this page. From Frey’s Chapter 14: Do Animals Shed Emotional Tears? from pp. 135-139: “Some Scientists Say Animals Cry Tears” In this section Frey mentions “several reports of animals shedding emotional tears — or what were interpreted as emotional tears — in the scientific literature cannot be ignored.” Frey opens with Darwin’s reports of tears in Indian elephants. Frey also points out the information that AAT/H proponents never seem to mention (even though it appears on the same page of Darwin’s Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals); that Darwin reported contrary information from his correspondents in Ceylon, where observations of recently captured elephants s
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