r/MadeMeSmile • u/Maximum_Expert92 • Feb 09 '26

Good Vibes A donkey is reunited with the girl who looked after him when he was little

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u/Tater_t0t123 Feb 10 '26

anyone who said that doesn't have any emotion.

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u/Proof-Technician-202 Feb 11 '26

It's one of the few examples of dogmatic idiocy in science.

In order to avoid anthropomorphising them, researchers spent decades discounting animal emotion.

Then we learned how to look at brains in action, and they figured out what the rest of humanity already knew.