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emotional responses are deeply evolutionarily advantageous in any animals that are making complex decisions and behaviors (in many vertebrates, say) because they act as a reinforcer for a behavior. a bird taking a vigorous bath in a puddle is probably happy because if that behavior didnt elicit a positive feeling they wouldn't do it (it is dangerous to be on the ground and wet!). if an animal can feel fear, which i think is a less contested assertion to make, then it can certainly feel the opposite, that is, happy.

pennaraptor

Bernd Heinrich in his book Nesting Season

the best thing in the whole wide world is laying in the grass under a hot sun, then bathing in the river, then back out in the sun.. rinse and repeat.

and when you get bored you look around for rocks to skip with

i am a simple woman at heart, potentially a dog

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—Mary Oliver, The Uses of Sorrow

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lol im high rn and full of cheese

#Spotify

so thankful i have a bag of low dose edibles. i was experiencing a killer migraine that advil wasn’t touching then remembered the chews and it’s finally easing up 🤤

“I told you she’d go nuts if we sat here together like this.”

#cats

what the heck I turned off the senegal belgium game because senegal had a 2-0 lead and figured they had it in the bag only to find out belgium scored two goals IN THE LAST 5 MINUTES of the game

#world cup