Do all animals have the ability to feel fear?

SUMMARY: In general, yes, nearly all animals have some sort of neural mechanism of responding to potentially dangerous situations with caution and evasiveness. While closer relatives of ours such as chimps and bonobos are much more likely to have more "human" experiences of fear, we can never truly know this as a certainty. read more

All animals have the ability to suffer in the same way and to the same degree that humans do. They feel pain, pleasure, fear, frustration, loneliness, and motherly love. Whenever we consider doing something that would interfere with their needs, we are morally obligated to take them into account. read more

Perception of fear and pain in animals Excerpt from Chapter 5 of Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson The single worst thing you can do to an animal emotionally is to make it feel afraid. read more