Do all animals feel love?

Love' can refer to many different emotions - romantic love, affection, friendship, unconditional love, etc. All of these have been observed in the animal kingdom. From an evolutionary perspective, this makes complete sense -- the limbic system, which is thought to be responsible for emotional processing, has evolved in the vast majority of the animal kingdom, including reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals. read more

However, Hof and Van Der Gucht clarify that they do not know the nature of such feelings in these animals and that we cannot just apply what we see in great apes or ourselves to whales. They believe that more work is needed to know whether emotions are the same for humans and whales. read more