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It also turns out that thinking about mental illness in other animals isn't actually that much of a stretch.
In other animals, we have YouTube.
Other super common behaviors that you may see, particularly in captive animals, are pacing stereotypies or swaying stereotypies, and actually, humans do this too, and in us, we'll sway, we'll move from side to side.
Many of us do this, and sometimes it's an effort to soothe ourselves, and I think in other animals that is often the case too.
But it's not just stereotypic behaviors that other animals engage in.
Many animals develop mood disorders.
So one thing that people ask me pretty frequently: Is this just an instance of humans driving other animals crazy?
So one great thing that has happened to me is recently I published a book on this, and every day now that I open my email or when I go to a reading or even when I go to a cocktail party, people tell me their stories of the animals that they have met.
This is extremely anthropomorphic, or the assignation of human characteristics onto non-human animals or things.
Anthropomorphizing well, however, I believe is based on accepting our animal similarities with other species and using them to make assumptions that are informed about other animals' minds and experiences, and there's actually an entire industry that is in some ways based on anthropomorphizing well, and that is the psychopharmaceutical industry.
It turns out that we owe this entire psychopharmaceutical arsenal to other animals.
These drugs were tested in non-human animals first, and not just for toxicity but for behavioral effects.
Today, however, we are not just giving these drugs to other animals as test subjects, but they're giving them these drugs as patients, both in ethical and much less ethical ways.
It's hard to know how many animals are on these drugs, but I can tell you that the animal pharmaceutical industry is immense and growing, from seven billion dollars in 2011 to a projected 9.25 billion by the year 2015.
Some animals are on these drugs indefinitely.
The thing, though, I believe, that helps the most, particularly with social animals, is time with other social animals.
In fact, some interesting studies have pointed to oxytocin levels, which are a kind of bonding hormone that we release when we're having sex or nursing or around someone that we care for extremely, oxytocin levels raising in both humans and dogs who care about each other or who enjoy each other's company, and beyond that, other studies show that oxytocin raised even in other pairs of animals, so, say, in goats and dogs who were friends and played with each other, their levels spiked afterwards.
I no longer look at animals at the species level.
And I really believe that this has made me a more curious and a more empathetic person, both to the animals that share my bed and occasionally wind up on my plate, but also to the people that I know who are suffering from anxiety and from phobias and all manner of other things, and I really do believe that even though you can't know exactly what's going on in the mind of a pig or your pug or your partner, that that shouldn't stop you from empathizing with them.
They were compared to animals, sexually repressed beasts.
I don't have to please men anymore, only animals.
To address questions like that, scientists are now scanning other species of animals, and they're also scanning human infants.
It is true that as human beings, we're social animals, which means we have a need for other people to know what we're doing and saying and thinking, which is why we voluntarily publish information about ourselves online.
We are social animals.
Only his cousin survived, and the two of them walked for seven months — this is boys like him — chased and pursued by wild animals and armed gangs, and they finally made it to refugee camps where they found safety, and he would spend the next seven years in Kenya in a refugee camp.
But why this is so important, why this picture is up, is because this particular animal brought his friends around, and instead of being the pelagic animals that they were, they started getting curious about us, these new strangers that were moving into the neighborhood, doing things with plankton.
We were studying all sorts of animals and critters, and they got closer and closer to us, and because of the luxury of time, these animals, these residents of the coral reef, were starting to get used to us, and these pelagics that normal travel through stopped.
Because of the luxury of time, we were able to study animals such as sharks and grouper in aggregations that we've never seen before.
Even being able to commune with animals that are much larger than us, such as this endangered goliath grouper who only still resides in the Florida Keys.
And that particular camera gives us an insight into what fairly common animals do but we can't even see it in the blink of an eye.
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