Love

[tarheeljks]

elephants have been known to mourn their dead

[nath]

op makes me realize how empty and devoid of love my life is

[theblackkeys]

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For the people saying that animals can love, what kinds of animals are capable of it?

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[JuntMonkey]

Since the feeling of being in love is just chemicals in your brain, obviously it's possible for that to happen pretty soon after seeing somebody for the first time.

If you want to argue that love isn't chemicals and that it's something "more", then you're getting into arbitrary semantics and who the [censored] are you to say that somebody else can't have whatever you're talking about at first sight (unless your definition of "love" involves arbitrary time constraints)?

[hoyasnaxa]

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For the people saying that animals can love, what kinds of animals are capable of it?

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All animals that reproduce sexually.

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love in this context is emotional.

i don't feel like i'm going out on a limb when i say dogs clearly seem to have emotions and something like coral clearly doesn't.

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what about fish? certain kinds of fish maybe? what about birds?

[SamIAm]

It's absolutely clear that my dog would do anything to make me happy, valuing my wellbeing over his own. Sounds like the definition of love to me.

On the other hand, he also loves steak. That's probably different. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Los Feliz Slim]

I love my immediate family and my best friend, I'm in love with my wife, but my daughter's arrival re-defined the word for me.