Blog post #4 Animal’s Envy

            

Is envy only happen in humans? Is it possible that animal also feels envy? The answer is yes! Because even though they don’t have knowledge like what human have they still have a feelings or reaction to their surroundings. Animals also feel this because they have possession like love, they also feel love or food territory or where ever there possession, envy will follow.

            It is socially prevalent in social animals that have fluid hierarchies. For example our pets in our homes like the man’s best friend the dogs. If you have lot of dogs in your backyard I am pretty sure that you have a favorite among all of them and there is one dog that becomes envious because it has lock of attentions, lock of treats from you. But I think it can’t do anything to express how envy it is. And even our closest genetic relative the primates like gorillas when they see other females mating with silverback, of course even human would jealous if they saw their partner with the other guy.

            From “Dogs Can Feel Envy, Study Suggest”  an article for National Geographic News, Friederike Range of the University of Vienna, Austria made an experiment with The team had one dog watch another dog receive a reward for doing a trick. When the watching dog performed the same trick and was not rewarded, that dog refused to do the trick again. Is this a proof that a dog can truly feels envy? If you base on their experiments maybe that dog really feels envy that time that’s why it refused to do the trick again.

So if our pets really feels envy like us human feel it maybe we also need to learn how to be equal when we treat them because it may cause that our pet may go away from us or it can hurt its buddy maybe. Let’s just treat our pets equally so there will be no problem.