Do Animals Get Bored?
Day 616, 19:35
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by Theodor Cristian Ghita
It would be exceedingly challenging to determine whether or not all animals get bored, but it does appear that higher functioning animals can indeed experience boredom. Household pets such as dogs and cats, for example, often take extended naps apparently prompted by a lack of mental stimulation. Cats are especially prone to bouts of boredom, since they crave a significant amount of interaction with their owners throughout the day.
One reason determining if animals get bored or not is difficult is the tendency of human observers to assign human emotions and expressions to their non-human test subjects. Some animals may display a glassy-eyed stare or apparent disinterest in their outside environment, but this does not necessarily translate to the human concept of boredom. Some animals spend hours at a time simply waiting for a promising food source to arrive. While these animals may appear to be listless or disinterested, it might be more accurate to describe their state of mind as dormant or semi-conscious.
Other animals, especially those with higher functioning brains, can indeed become bored following an extended lack of mental stimulation. When higher functioning animals get bored, they may invent stimulating games or visit unexplored sections of their habitats. This behavior is remarkably similar to the pointless but mind-stimulating projects humans often engage in when faced with hours of inactivity.
Some may argue that an animal's attention span can be extremely short in general, which means what humans might consider signs of boredom may simply be a temporary lack of mental stimulation. While some animals may display signs of boredom, they may not actually have the capacity to form such a complex emotion. It is possible that many animals live more in a more delineated "excited/not excited" state of mind, which would still allow for a sense of boredom, but not the same sense of frustration humans associated with true boredom. When many animals get bored, they simply live in a disconnected emotional state until something new arrives to break the monotony. Animals living in zoos, for example, may sit quietly for hours until visitors arrive.
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animals are soulless beasts, except for Bugs Bunny of course.
I think that animal that use to play can feel the boredom, and i think that this is more true with animals that still play when adult( in the childood, playng is one of the way that the animal use to learn things but in adult stage they have no more thing to learn, and so many species stop to play)
So some monkey, dolphin. dog still play when adult, so if they need entertaiment they must feel boredom.... obviously isn't the same boredom feeled by humans or better: isn't perceived by the animals in the same way perceived by the humans, for the simple fact that boredom is an abstract concept and animals don't know abstract thinking. So the animal got bored but don't know that he is bored.
This in general more in detail i think that Dolphins are more inteligent then many people around the worl😛D
You do Dolphins are more intelligent then any Men around the world? How and why?
"many people around the world"
It's a joke about how many ,and how much stupid, people can be🙂
Well, you had your point though. whahah 🙂
Even in the Bible or at least in the most trusty translations of the original text in the Genesis is said that God created living "anime", but in some translation we find "beings" or "life"
I think that "anima" (that i intentionally left untranslated) miss in some version due to the different meanigns of same words due to literal translation in some language.
The etymology of Animal come from Latin animal, a nominal use of an adjective from animale, neuter of animalis adj, from anima ‘breath, spirit’
Thats the point, "breath" or "spiritus"(latin) are the literally meaning of world "anima" but now the mean is the same of "soul".
This is due to the fact that the whole concept of "soul" is a product of religion of the germanic people in precristian era.
In fact in accordance with german miths: The men was created by 3 Gods
One give😛 the "Breath" in latin "spirit" with the same mean of the literal meaning of "anima"
One gived : "Soul"
And another: the "the word"
So the whole concept of "soul" as now intented is derivated from the german mith, in countries where the concept of "soul" don't existed previously (ex roman empire) the concept of "soul" fused and replaced the concept of "spiritus, breath, Anima"
But the original meaning of the word "anima, psiche,spiritus, nefesh" is simple "breath" , and so life.
PS Isn't much related with the article, but the newspaper names is "letter from the soul" so i think tha this comment here is in the right place😃
Wow William Sack!!
Hehe, I made an article about your comment regarding the souls.