Humanimals

Human-animal connection from time memorial rolls down to companionship, protectors, workmates they have been with us in the fields, accompanied us in battles, aided us in rescue missions, comforted us in trauma & acted as service officers. This deep innate bond suggest our very sense of humanity. Yet a growing body of research into the human-animal connection shows the benefits are not just emotional. They boost infant immunity, help with mental health disorders, and lower blood pressure. We benefit from the quiet, non-judgmental nature of their presence it’s a powerful two-way bond.

Animals have served as a critical food source. Hunting represented a human evolutionary progress. Hunters honored as well as appropriated their skills from observing the techniques of non-human predators. Affinity for animals helped in the domestication process.

 Are people hardwired to pay attention, respond to, and be stimulated by animals? The answer is yes. Caused by primitive relationships between predator and prey, people have increased brain activity when confronted by animals, signalling the individual to run, hide, or admire. Years of zooming away or zooming to animals left its mark in the brain, where looking at a photo of an animal also leaves us with a wobble.

Learn how we are twinning each other

Humans have complex ears, startlingly katydid's insects have the same set as ours…

Humans reign supreme in the arena of language, parrot following few steps surprisingly even elephants can figure out how to make the same sounds we do. An Asian elephant living in a South Korean zoo has learned to mimic human words…

Weird faces which we make in pain? Are enacted by mice too…

Octopus make shelters out of coconut shells when ready to go to a new place all it has to do is stack the shells like bowls, grasp them with stiff legs, and waddle away to a new location. Something what we do when we make houses of bamboo….

Humans & Chimps share 98.8 percent of DNA…

 The Animal Connection reaffirms our love of animals as something both innate and distinctly human.