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"Can animals laugh??"

Is there any animal that can actually laugh, not like a hiena, that heckles and sounds like a laugh, but actually find something funny.

Is is possible? I've been trying to make my dog laugh by tripping my cats up, but it doesnt work.

monkey_man wrote:
> [URL]http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Cats/Emotions.jpg[/URL]
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> I think the last two are having "animours"...

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[URL]http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Cats/Emotions.jpg[/URL]

I think the last two are having "animours"...

That would make it "Animour", which sounds like "Enema"...an altogether different facial expression.

This thread reminds me of something in Brooker's Screenburn: "Do spiders live alone?"

He's right, humour is human, hence the "hum" prefix found in "human"

Show a chimp Bill & Ted and see if he laughs. If he doesn't, be gone with it.

Chimps.
Humans.
Dolphins?

But humour is a human emotion ... it has no purpose other than socially.

To find something funny requires emotion, and it's only us that have that. And mice, of course.

Humans.

Is there any animal that can actually laugh, not like a hiena, that heckles and sounds like a laugh, but actually find something funny.

Is is possible? I've been trying to make my dog laugh by tripping my cats up, but it doesnt work.