Haha yup, sorta. They did use the bacteria originally discovered on skin (Mycobacterium smegmatis) but apparently it’s more common to find it in soil. Really valuable finding tho! Here’s a link to the primary source.
I find several things on that list quite stressful. In fact, I don’t know why anyone would think booking a holiday was the part that made you feel good.
I’m not surprised by this at all. Every domesticated animal I’ve ever met has the sensitivity to discern human emotions. I always considered it part of the prerequisites for domestication.
The researchers plan to continue investigating horses’ abilities to detect sadness, particularly whether they can detect sadness amongst other negative emotions.
I don’t know which aspect is stronger for certain but emotions are a very base thing. Humans can definitely intellectualize our emotions way more and create a lot of emotional nuance that way. But it seems reasonable that pure emotional intensity, and probably sometimes emotional perception (with less nuance) as well, could be stronger in some other highly social animals.
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