Talk:Laughter in animals

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How about Hyenas? 78.149.75.123 (talk) 20:13, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
 * That just sounds like laughter. It's no more humor-laughter than the sound of laughter coming from a tape recorder. DS (talk) 02:03, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
 * And how is this determined? Hyenas are mammals. I would imagine that laughter, like music-abilities, involved the recruitment of almost the entire brain...and all mammals have miniscule frontal lobes---ours are just alot bigger. A joke, like a frog, once dissected, dies. So I don't like to talk about "sources" when it comes to laughter. But seriously dude, how can you know that the jackals aren't "laughing" or doing something synonymous or analogous. Leave it to me to defend the jackals. Shit, they might be laughing. You arrogant dog.68.59.4.188 (talk) 02:44, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Hyenas REALLY laughing when they "laugh" I doubt...
Here in darkest Africa the sound that Hyenas make only SOUND like laughing. If you REALLY want to see them laughing go tickle one. They will laugh all the way to the dinner table. Jackals do not make a laughing sound. 156.8.251.250 (talk) 21:56, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

the laughing cow
seriously?--Streona (talk) 15:24, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

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Title change
I would suggest that a better title for the article would be Laughter in nonhuman animals, as that is a much more accurate description of its subject, as is made explicit in the lead. Trilobright (talk) 14:08, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

OA version of the paper 2021
https://gabryant.scholar.ss.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2021/05/Play_vocals_Bioacoustics_2021.pdf --Historiograf (talk) 14:59, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

“A significant portion of it has been found in mammals”
Where has it been fund in non-mammals? 2600:1006:B000:C04B:3D97:2677:51A2:9760 (talk) 02:41, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Grammar problem
This does not make sense: "the laugh followed the same sonographic pattern of human babies to include as similar facial expressions". 2A00:23C5:FE56:6C01:583F:980A:BC51:F347 (talk) 19:50, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

What about Bonobos?
The article lists chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas as great apes capable of laughter but omits bonobos, who are no longer classified as chimpanzees and do laugh. 2607:FB60:1011:2006:6879:66E2:8C6E:3E6B (talk) 23:45, 25 August 2023 (UTC)