Inloggen. Animal articles, quizzes, facts and much more. The Gift of Animal Emotions: By Marc Bekoff, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado; (marc.bekof@colorado.edu; ) As a scientist who's studied animal emotions for more than thirty years, I consider myself very fortunate. I love what I do. I love learning about animals, and I love sharing what my colleagues and I discover with others. Whenever I observe or work with animals, I get to contribute to "science" and develop social relationships at the same time. To me, there's no conflict between those activities.
While stories about animal emotions abound, there are many lines of scientific support (what I call "science sense") about the nature of animal emotions that are rapidly accumulating from behavioral and neurobiological studies (from the emerging field called social neuroscience using fMRIs and PET scans). In scientific research there are always surprises. Emotions are the gifts of our ancestors. Animal Jobs Direct - Jobs with Animals. European Animals Coloring/Info Pages.