Which animal laughs like human

He's also identified seven basic emotional systems housed in the same areas of mammal brains. His research has even helped combat depression in people.

One antidepressant in clinical trials, called GLYX , has its roots in the study of rat laughter. Also see " Is Laughter the Best Medicine? It's an example "of what can be achieved by taking the emotional feelings of animals seriously as targets for psychiatric medicinal development," he says.

We think of rats and apes as smart, but intelligence isn't a requirement for laughter, Panksepp adds. So identifying other animals that laugh, he says, may be a matter of listening to the sounds they make while having fun.

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By the study's definition, cats hissing during playtime qualified as laughter. Winkler tells Ars Technica that though the study aimed to be comprehensive, that there may be even more laughing animals out there. Alex Fox is a freelance science journalist based in Washington, D. You can find him at Alexfoxscience. Download our iPhone app Download our Android app. Today's headlines Most Read Visit Olympia as it stood more than 2, years ago!

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