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| When Animals Shed Tears in Suffering |
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| Saturday, 07 March 2009 10:34 | |||
Are humans the only ones who cry ? Ask anyone who has seen a street dog lose even one of her puppies to a passing car or to the beating of a passerby. The night is filled with her howls as she mourns her baby. My dog Milli had a child. He was killed by another dog . She cried for a week and looked for him everywhere. When a baby chimpanzee dies, the mother will carry the body around for several days . The gorilla Koko , while in captivity, made friends with a cat and when he died , she wept and mourned. Have you heard the lonely bird cry that has been left behind inadvertently by the rest of the flight flock? Have you seen the tears of the cow as she runs desperately behind the cart that is carrying her calf away to slaughter? I have and it is like a permanent open wound inside my heart. When I stop a truck from taking buffaloes illegally to slaughter and fifty jumbled creatures stumble out from a space meant for eight , I see their faces wet with the tears of fear and pain. It is not just human babies that cry when their mothers don’t feed them. Monkey babies cry out to their mothers when they are hungry and when they are being weaned away from being breast fed, they tend to cry more and more. Initially their mothers respond to the distress calls. But as they respond less and less, the infants gradually stop crying and brave themselves to find their own food. Just as children cry when they are frightened or hurt, chimpanzees cry for a long time if something terrible is happening to them, but when they are picked up , they stop. Since all animals and birds share the feelings of love, care, motherhood, pain, territorial possessiveness and intelligence, it is natural that they will also feel the emotions of depression, loss , fear and all the nuances in between. All animals can shed tears. Tears are an important protection and lubricant for the eye. They flush out irritants and keep the eye wet to enhance vision. But scientists like to presume that only humans cry “ emotional” tears while all the rest are caused by irritation of the eyes. This inspite of the fact that all experiments have shown that loss or death shows weeping in chimpanzees, dogs, elephants and bears – so far. In fact those who work in the field of studying animal behaviour are advised by the standard reference work, The Oxford Companion to Animal Behavior, advises animal behaviorists that "One is well advised to study the behaviour, rather than attempting to get at any underlying emotion".Because of the philosophical questions of consciousness and mind involved, many scientists have stayed away from examining animal emotion, and have studied instead, measurable brain functions, through neuroscience. Studies have found that young mammals and birds cry with distress when they are separated from their mothers. Wildlife experts and hunters both note that the cry of a bear cub separated from its mother sounds very much like a human baby's cry. The Dugong , the sea cow that lives in the Indian Ocean and is now under the threat of extinction by the dredging of the unnecessary and thoroughly corrupt Sethusamudran project , cries copiously when in trouble or pain. When a baby rat cries because he is cold or fallen out of his nest, often his mother brings the fallen pup back into the nest.
Dogs can experience chronic depression through their feelings of helplessness at being repeatedly hurt.If you walk into most puppy mills, and even shelters and veterinary clinics, you'll probably hear at least one dog "crying". Not with tears, but pitiful whimpering that is as close to human crying as anything could be. My blind and deaf Great Dane, Gudiya, wants to play with people all the time. If we leave her suddenly , she will hunt for us for a little while and then make the most awful choked sobs at being left alone again. Do animals cry? Ofcourse they do. You simply have to look into their eyes to know. Marc Bekoff has studied animal emotions for thirty years and apart from the behavioral and neurobiological studies , he says that common sense supports the obvious conclusion is that mammals, birds and fish experience rich and deep emotional lives, feeling passions from pure and contagious joy during play, to deep grief and pain.
Neuroscientific research has also shown that elephants have a huge hippocampus, a brain structure in the limbic system that’s important in processing emotions. All mammals (including humans) share neuroanatomical structures (for example, the amygdala and hippocampus) and neurochemical pathways in the limbic system that are tied to feelings. Can you ignore the pain of an animal that cries like you? Can you cut open a crying mouse, dog or chimpanzee in a laboratory and justify it in the name of some research which you know is meaningless? Can you beat and eat and overuse a frightened helpless being just like you ? What hurts you , hurts all animals equally. If you understand this , you will activate that part of your brain that supplies compassion – and it is the same part that supplies intelligence. There is so much evidence that those scientists that refuse to believe that animals cry just like us , show how badly we have misinterpreted everything about this planet. (From kashmirobserver.net, by Maneka Gandhi) 
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El ser humano se cree dueño de absolutamente todo, hasta de la opción de sentir y de sufrir que poseen los animales y que niegan sistematicamente, será para acallar sus conciencias por el trato que infringen a estos seres vivos que merecen toda nuestra consideración y respeto, pero que solo unos pocos somos capaces de darselo...
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June 14, 2010
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Mi primera gata que vivió con mi primera perra durante 11 años, cuando la 2ª se murió, la gata estuvo 15 días sin comer aislada en la habitación la sacabas para que jugara y se animara y ella volvía corriendo a su refugio. Le tragimos otra perra, pero ella nunca la aceptó. Con el tiempo aprendieron a respetarse pero nunca llegaron a intimidar tanto como la relación que tuvieron mi gata con mi primera perra.Fué una experiencia triste pero recordándola ahora, y después de leer este artículo, fué un sentimiento realmente hermoso por parte de ellos.
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June 15, 2010
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Tengo dos perros,una hembra de 5 meses y un macho de 2 años y medio,son labradores negros,para mi son el motor de mi vida,me encanta llegar a mi casa y saber que estan ahi,esperando a que llegue.Disfruto de ellos todos los dias,son mis mejores amigos.Reconozco que estoy enamorada de mis perros,son lo mejor que tengo.AMAR Y CUIDAR A LOS ANIMALES ELLOS SIEMPRE LO HACEN POR NOSOTROS.
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June 15, 2010
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El año pasado tuve que hacer la última práctica de la universidad a más de 200 km de mi casa y venia a ver a mi familia cada 15 día, ellos fueron testigos de cómo mi gatita la noche que yo regresaba al lugar de prácticas, lloraba de tristeza al esperarme en nuestro cuarto, se quedaba acurrucadita en mi almohada y sus lágrimas corrían por sus ojitos.... se podrán imaginar, cómo se me desgarro el corazón cuando me lo contaron pues también me lo contaron con la voz entrecortada, desde que regresé, nadie la ha vuelto a ver llorar, y es que tenemos un vínculo tan estrecho, nos amamos tanto que a veces nadie me entiende...
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June 18, 2010
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Boris, el toro, fue rescatado por Hillside Animal Sanctuary, ( en Inglaterra) de una granja de producción industrial, donde las espantosas condiciones de existencia lo habían enfermado. Aunque, una vez rescatado, se le proporcionaron todos los cuidados, no logró sobrevivir. Antes de morir, lloró con su cuidadora, quizá por agradecimiento, quizá por pena por no tener ya más fuerzas. Todos los animales sentimos y sufrimos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE42M5WnYZA Por favor, demuestra tu compasión por quienes son más débiles, hazte vegano.
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June 19, 2010
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Lo de que los animales lloran y sienten es cierto.
Pero ya eso de hacerse vegano como dicen algunos exageran. ¿Qué sufrimiento tiene una oveja si comemos el queso que proviene de ella?... ¿Y un huevo?. No tiene terminaciones nerviosas para sentir dolor ni hay cerebro donde está la inteligencia o el poder sentir (para luego poder llorar por ejemplo.... Maltratar a un ser vivo si es deleznable, incluso uno puede considerar el vegetarianismo pero ¿el ser vegano?... no
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June 24, 2010
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El problema no es el huevo en sí ni la leche sino que estos productos provienen de unos animales que son mantenidos en un estado de explotación de por vida para que tú te comas el huevo o el trozo de queso. Gallinas hacinadas en jaulas, superhormonadas para que produzcan sin parar, ovejas en compartimentos mínimos e inseminadas artificialmente para que no dejen de dar leche y que casi no ven ni la luz del día. Por supuesto, cuando la producción decae y ya no son útiles se las cargan. En fin, ésta es la razón de ser del veganismo. No creo que ninguno de nosotros, los humanos, seamos más que ningún ser animal...ni creo que tengamos derecho a decidir sobre la vida de otros seres animales. Por cierto, lo que se hace en las granjas es maltratar a los animales...y de la forma más terrible.
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July 05, 2010
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Por supuesto que todxs lxs animales lloramos y reimos...no somos "unxs animales aparte..." aunque nos hacen creer eso desde pequeñxs, y que el resto estarían aquí para nuestro servicio...compartimos el mismo planeta, solo eso, cohabitamos y por ser autoritarixs, debemos replantearnos y respetar ya sus vidas en libertad que a ellxs y solo a ellxs les corresponde. Libérate libéralxs...Vive y deja Vivir !!! es sencillo, tomar conciencia y actuar en consecuencia
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July 05, 2010
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Bobby llora cuando le hago las curas, sus ojos se empapan literalmente y, cuando ya no puede más, se muerde el pelo del pecho por no morderme a mí. Bobby es un conejo que, como tantos otros, fue abandonado en la basura con la cadera rota, incontinencia y escaldado por la orina. Es impresionante pero no es la primera vez que lo veo. Bobby, lo vamos a conseguir.
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July 05, 2010
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Magnífico el artículo...Todo el mundo debería leerlo...Los toritos también lloran cuando son torturados en las plazas...Llora la Madre Tierra con el llanto de cada una de sus criaturas...Todos somos UNO.
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July 06, 2010
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Adoro los animales... lloro más por ellos que por el resto de mi familia... la verdad que prefiero tener animales a hijos.
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July 09, 2010
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El fin de semana pasado tuvimos q salir de a ciudad, dejando a mi perrita con mi hermana y su esposo (está acostumbrada a estar conmigo y mi esposo o con mis papás), nos fuimos el sábado temprano y regresamos el sabado por la tarde-noche, dice mi harmana que todo el domingo la perrita estuvo en la recamara que ocupamos mi esposo y yo en la casa de mis papás, que la bajaba a la sala y ella se volvía a subir. Pobrecita!! La adoro.
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March 16, 2011
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si los delfines tienen sexo por placer, no solamente por instinto de apareamiento, como negar que existan otras emociones como la tristeza o la alegria?...su sensibilidad es innegable! acaso los movimientos de una colita al llegar no son la mejor manera de decir "bienvenido a casa"?...
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November 07, 2011
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If you have ever seen a donkey cry, your world will never be the same again. Those deep large tears that roll out from under its long eyelashes carving valleys down its cheeks, the trembling of its lips, the hunching of its shoulders. One can only rail at the cruelty of the human species that it could abuse such a tender fragile creature.
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy is a book that should be read by everyone who has seen an elephant being beaten on its head by its mahout ( last week , the Kairali news channel showed an undercover film on the killing of elephants in Kerala for insurance money by a gang headed by a retired forest officer and his son. They buy sick elephants on the pretext of treating them and kill them by beating in its head with bats , take out the tusks and nails and then get the insurance money.) or being separated from its herd. When an elephant dies, all the group surrounds it and weeps. When a baby is hurt, the mother will not leave it – even if it means sitting on a railway track. Baby elephants in particular produce a very sad, keening sound. Charles Darwin said that the keeper of the Indian elephants at the London Zoo told him the elephants would weep sorrowfully.
“Scientific research shows that spindle cells, which were long thought to exist only in humans and other great apes, have been discovered in humpback whales, fin whales, killer whales and sperm whales in the same area of their brains as spindle cells in human brains. This brain region is linked with social organization, empathy and intuition about the feelings of others, as well as rapid gut reactions. Spindle cells are important in processing emotions. It’s likely that if we seek the presence of spindle cells in other animals we will find them."
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