Animal behaviour: emotion in invertebrates?

Curr Biol. 2011 Jun 21;21(12):R463-5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.05.028.

Abstract

Bees exposed to vigorous shaking designed to simulate a dangerous event judge ambiguous stimuli as predicting a negative outcome - a 'pessimistic' cognitive bias that is characteristic of anxious or depressed humans and other vertebrates in putative negative emotional states.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Behavior, Animal*
  • Emotions*
  • Invertebrates*