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Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« on: March 09, 2011, 12:50:43 PM »
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onehandle  (1000+ posts)      Wed Mar-09-11 12:09 PM
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Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
 
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Domestic chickens display signs of empathy, the ability to ''feel another's pain'' that is at the heart of compassion, a study has found.

The discovery has important implications for the welfare of farm and laboratory animals, say researchers. Empathy, long thought to be a defining human trait, causes one individual to be affected by the emotional state of another. Feelings are ''mirrored'' in the observer, leading to a shared experience of being happy, sad or distressed. The research demonstrated that hens possess a fundamental capacity to empathise, at least with their own chicks. Scientists chose hens and chicks for the study because it is thought empathy probably evolved to aid parental care.

A number of controlled procedures were carried out which involved ruffling the feathers of chicks and mother hens with an air puff. When chicks were exposed to puffs of air, they showed signs of distress that were mirrored by their mothers. The hens' heart rate increased, their eye temperature lowered - a recognised stress sign - and they became increasingly alert. Levels of preening were reduced, and the hens made more clucking noises directed at their chicks.

Researcher Jo Edgar, from the School of Veterinary Sciences at the University of Bristol, said: ''The extent to which animals are affected by the distress of others is of high relevance to the welfare of farm and laboratory animals. ''Our research has addressed the fundamental question of whether birds have the capacity to show empathic responses. ''We found that adult female birds possess at least one of the essential underpinning attributes of 'empathy', the ability to be affected by, and share, the emotional state of another.''

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8370301...

 

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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2011, 12:53:06 PM »
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Autumn  (1000+ posts)      Wed Mar-09-11 12:16 PM
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2. I got to say, I have a hen who is six years old
 she is just the smartest thing I have seen. She is more like a dog and I swear to God she understands me when we talk. I think she can even tell time. When it's time for me to start dinner she gets on the deck railing by the kitchen window and chats with me when I am in the kitchen.

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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2011, 12:59:49 PM »
I don't care.  Chicken is delicious and I'm still going to eat its empathic thigh/wing/breast.
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2011, 01:08:55 PM »
Mmm... deep-fried feelings. :yum:
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2011, 01:09:01 PM »
I'll lay odds chickens are definitely higher in IQ than 90% of the primitives on Skin's Island!
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2011, 01:10:58 PM »
Quote from: AllosaursRus on March 09, 2011, 01:09:01 PM
I'll lay odds chickens are definitely higher in IQ than 90% of the primitives on Skin's Island!
And smell better too.
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2011, 01:13:39 PM »
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2011, 01:15:54 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on March 09, 2011, 01:08:55 PM
Mmm... deep-fried feelings. :yum:


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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2011, 01:27:35 PM »
If these geeks didn't spend so much of their time conducting ridiculous experiments like this more of them might be getting laid.

Chickens feeling empathy?  :lmao:

Any critter that isn't smart enough not to shit in its own feed isn't demonstrating much mental capacity.
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2011, 01:58:05 PM »
Quote from: FreeBorn on March 09, 2011, 01:27:35 PM
If these geeks didn't spend so much of their time conducting ridiculous experiments like this more of them might be getting laid.

Chickens feeling empathy?  :lmao:

Any critter that isn't smart enough not to shit in its own feed isn't demonstrating much mental capacity.


Shit, my CAT feels empathy for me as long as I feed it and give it some loving.    Now if I drop dead and no one finds me for a week, my cats  will ****ing eat me.
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2011, 02:13:50 PM »
Chickens; yet one more thing that displays higher brain functions than your average liberal.
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #11 on: March 09, 2011, 02:27:24 PM »
Yeah, they feel empathy for their chicks...that's why they'll abandon ones that are unhealthy and handicapped. I have a few chickens who are pets, definitely friendlier than the majority and I adore them. I even taught my rooster, Spartacus, to jump up and take food out of my hand, but they operate on habit and instinct. The broody ones are great mothers but the majority of them lay their eggs, get up from the nest and don't ever think of them again. Even the good mothers will chase them away when they've reached a certain size. Some roosters will stand by their favorite hens while they lay but mostly that's because they're hoping to get a little when she hops out of the nesting box.

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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2011, 02:31:34 PM »
Here's one for GOBUCKS:

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28. Thank you!
 I've even weaned my 82 year old Mom off most meat & dairy.
  Any snot-nosed kid o mine who tried that would pull back a stump. 
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2011, 02:42:48 PM »
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28. Thank you!
 I've even weaned my 82 year old Mom off most meat & dairy.


Oh bullshit!  First of all, someone with that low of a post count has to be working for DUmp street cred.  Secondly, anyone who is 82 isn't going to wean off of meat & dairy because their kid made them.  Hell, if I make it to 82, I'll be smoking, drinking & eating whatever the hell I want.
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2011, 02:44:13 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on March 09, 2011, 02:42:48 PM


Oh bullshit!  First of all, someone with that low of a post count has to be working for DUmp street cred.  Secondly, anyone who is 82 isn't going to wean off of meat & dairy because their kid made them.  Hell, if I make it to 82, I'll be smoking, drinking & eating whatever the hell I want.

Not to mention, once people pass, I'd say, 60, they're generally set to their ways. Hell, I'm that way at 38.
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #15 on: March 09, 2011, 02:58:12 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on March 09, 2011, 02:42:48 PM


Oh bullshit!  First of all, someone with that low of a post count has to be working for DUmp street cred.  Secondly, anyone who is 82 isn't going to wean off of meat & dairy because their kid made them.  Hell, if I make it to 82, I'll be smoking, drinking & eating whatever the hell I want.

 :lmao:  Reminds me of a guy I worked for years ago. He was about 72 or 73. He went to the doctor and came back acting down in the dumps. I asked him what was wrong. He told me that the doctor had told him that he had to quit drinking liquor, smoking cigars, and eating BBQ. I asked what would happen if he didn't stop. Would he not get old because if so it was too late for that.
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #16 on: March 09, 2011, 02:59:51 PM »
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I've even weaned my 82 year old Mom off most meat & dairy.

She died.
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #17 on: March 09, 2011, 03:00:47 PM »
I wonder what a human being feels in utero. 
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #18 on: March 09, 2011, 03:20:52 PM »
Quote from: AllosaursRus on March 09, 2011, 01:09:01 PM
I'll lay odds chickens are definitely higher in IQ than 90% of the primitives on Skin's Island!

That goes for shoe scrapings too.
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
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onehandle  (1000+ posts)      Wed Mar-09-11 12:09 PM
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Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
 
Source: Telegraph

Domestic chickens display signs of empathy, the ability to ''feel another's pain'' that is at the heart of compassion, a study has found.
Yet the unborn aborted human off-spring, the giggly, jiggy, freedom authenticating love activity of the left are not.

Gotcha - chicken-liberal...
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #20 on: March 09, 2011, 03:49:24 PM »
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Autumn  (1000+ posts)      Wed Mar-09-11 12:16 PM
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2. I got to say, I have a hen who is six years old
 she is just the smartest thing I have seen. She is more like a dog and I swear to God she understands me when we talk. I think she can even tell time. When it's time for me to start dinner she gets on the deck railing by the kitchen window and chats with me when I am in the kitchen.

Apparently someone scored themselves some righteous designer bud...
"My chickens talk with me and we discuss Freud, our Mensa memberships, Plato, Socrates ("Erm...I drank what?"), and 0bama."

Riiight....
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #21 on: March 09, 2011, 03:50:34 PM »
Quote from: AllosaursRus on March 09, 2011, 01:09:01 PM
I'll lay odds chickens are definitely higher in IQ than 90% of the primitives on Skin's Island!
Well now, there you have it!
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #22 on: March 09, 2011, 03:54:20 PM »
Quote from: delilahmused on March 09, 2011, 02:27:24 PM
Yeah, they feel empathy for their chicks...that's why they'll abandon ones that are unhealthy and handicapped. I have a few chickens who are pets, definitely friendlier than the majority and I adore them. I even taught my rooster, Spartacus, to jump up and take food out of my hand, but they operate on habit and instinct. The broody ones are great mothers but the majority of them lay their eggs, get up from the nest and don't ever think of them again. Even the good mothers will chase them away when they've reached a certain size. Some roosters will stand by their favorite hens while they lay but mostly that's because they're hoping to get a little when she hops out of the nesting box.

Cindie

Heh! Guess that's why they compare us males to roosters, huh? It's hell waitin' for momma to get well after pregnancy! How many of us wait 2 weeks?
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #23 on: March 09, 2011, 04:02:27 PM »
My chickens are liberals! All they say is barraaak!
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Re: Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
« Reply #24 on: March 09, 2011, 04:04:24 PM »
Quote from: catsmtrods on March 09, 2011, 04:02:27 PM
My chickens are liberals! All they say is barraaak!

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