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We know that some animals, like dogs and apes, can laugh. Can an animal also have a sense of humor? Join Anthony as he discusses how Koko the Gorilla and some other animals show promising signs.

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Reconstructing the Evolution of Laughter in Great Apes and Humans
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/a...
"Human emotional expressions, such as laughter, are argued to have their origins in ancestral nonhuman primate displays."

"Laughing rats and the evolutionary antecedents of human joy?
http://web.archive.org/web/2011071610...
"One of Paul MacLean's lasting insights was the recognition that subcortical regions of the human mammalian brain contain a variety of evolved emotional systems for the governance and behavior."

Laughing Rats?: Playful Tickling Arouses High-Frequency Ultrasonic Chirping in Young Rodents
http://falk.mccormick.northwestern.ed...
"In this reprint of a seminal article, once considered quite controversial, the authors discuss their radical claim that rats laugh."

Ultrasonic Communication in Rats: Can Playback of 50-kHz Calls Induce Approach Behavior?
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3...
"Rats emit distinct types of ultrasonic vocalizations, which differ depending on age, the subject's current state and environmental factors."

Tickled Apes Yield Laughter Clue
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/na...
"New research has given credence to the idea that laughter evolved in a common ancestor of the great apes and humans."

Dogs Actually Can Smile - Animalist
   • Dogs Actually Can Smile  

Rats Laugh, but Not Like Humans
http://www.scientificamerican.com/art...
"Once, while in a drowsy, altitude-induced delirium 35,000 feet somewhere over iceland, I groped mindlessly for the cozy blue blanket poking out beneath my seat, only to realize-to my unutterable horror-that I was in fact tugging soundly on a wriggling, sock-covered big toe."

Entry 4: Do animals have a sense of humor?
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/cu...
"Right now, in a high-security research lab at Northwestern University's Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics, scientists are tickling rats."

No Joke: Animals Laugh, Too
http://www.livescience.com/6946-joke-...
"Life can be funny, and not just for humans."

Laughter in animals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter...
"Laughter in animals other than humans describes animal behavior which resembles human laughter."

Rats' brains are more like ours than scientists previously thought
http://news.psu.edu/story/270321/2013...
"Neuroscientists face a multitude of challenges in their efforts to better understand the human brain."

Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights
http://books.google.com/books?id=2Wq7...

Koko (gorilla)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(go...)
Koko is a female gorilla who, according to Francine 'Penny' Patterson, her long-term trainer, is able to understand more than 1,000 signs based on American Sign Language, and understand approximately 2,000 words of spoken English."

How Laughter Works
http://science.howstuffworks.com/life...
"The physiological study of laughter has its own name -- gelotology."

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Animals Have Human Emotions
   • Animals Have Human Emotions  

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