Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on Do Animals Have Feelings. It needs to be at least 750 words.Wilhelm explains the observation on elephant behavior made by Joyce H. Poole who is a r

Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on Do Animals Have Feelings. It needs to be at least 750 words.

Wilhelm explains the observation on elephant behavior made by Joyce H. Poole who is a research director in Amboseli Trust for Elephants in Kenya. In the article, Poole says that elephants do make friendships among themselves.The author also explains how observers have seen elephants mourn over a still birth and how they provide emotional support to the sick or wounded by caressing. This is quite interesting because it is unimaginable how animals can tell their friends or family members. In addition, the act of mourning over a still birth and caressing of a victim by fellow heard members makes elephants to be like animals that have brains which functions as human brains. The article further maintains that other animals like roughhousing chimpanzees, dogs and rats display some behavior which suggests that they have emotions.

On the other hand, the article explains how people have tried to understand animal emotions differently over time. According to the author, Charles Darwin, an English naturalist suggested that animals have emotions since they exhibit similar behavior to that of humans. The article further points out a different opinion on the same note by stating that in the following century after Darwin conclusion, “a reductionist view took hold” and stated that animals “are devoid of feelings”. In addition, the article introduces another idea where animals are shown to adapt in order to survive using cues in which emotion is one of them. This is confusing because the author does not tell us which of the three opinions override the rest. In addition, little information is given to support the opinions of animal emotions.

Interestingly, then author tries to explain the difference between emotions and feelings in an effort to describe animal behavior. The article differentiates feelings and emotions using a scheme laid down by Antonio R. Damasio. Damasio describes emotions as an