It's long believed that tears of joy or sadness are unique to humans.
But now, researchers in Japan have taken on that assumption with a contentious series of experiments involving man's best friend. Our canine pets, they argue, have eyes brimming with feelings, too.
In our own species, a greater volume of tears is linked to greater arousal of emotion, and the current findings suggest that it is positive emotions eliciting the extra tears in dogs, too. "We had never heard of the discovery that animals shed tears in joyful situations, such as reuniting with their owners, and we were all excited that this would be a world first!"The discovery of happy tears in our canine companions would certainly be a revolutionary find. But other scientists are not convinced by the new experiment or its methodology.
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