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    Default Animals have their own personalities ;)

    How come the Tasmanian University has to spend up to discover something we all know, that animals have individual personalities. This is from an article in today's abc news on-line: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...9/s1737258.htm
    It ends up saying: "Shyer animals tend to flee or try to get away from the threatening situation the best they can." What like human animals?
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    Unfortunately it's a characteristic of Western society to require scientific evidence from a legitimate authority to support statements regarding the nature of non-human animals. Simply using common sense isn't enough these days

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    Default Re: Animals have their own personalities ;)

    I have one word for that rersearch - Duh!!

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    Reminds me of that cruel experiment they did involving pigs to prove that safety baseballs really are safer than regular baseballs. A huge step for mankind

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    Default Re: Animals have their own personalities ;)

    Animals have their own personalities?! pull the other one!

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    lol.no shit sherlock.

    I am writing a literary review at the moment on 'when elephants weep,the emotional life of animals'It is hard to be objective.I feel like saying, the notion that animals are emotional,is not even as advanced as ,common sense...lol

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    Default Re: Animals have their own personalities ;)

    Typical human arrogance...

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    Default Re: Animals have their own personalities ;)

    The book "The pig who sang to the moon" is also about the emotional lives of farm animals. I am about half way through it and it is very interesting. It also says that each animal has their own personality.

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    Default Re: Animals have their own personalities ;)

    I am reading Watership Down. Proof that rabbits have personality

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    Default Re: Animals have their own personalities ;)

    From the 'scientific' perspective, they could have figured this one out if they'd read any of palentologists Stephen Jay Gould's books
    'To repeat what others have said requires education, to challenge it requires brains.'

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