Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can't be too big of a surprise.
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Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised.
I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.
No matter what hyenas sound like, they are not actually laughing.
Dogs who live in each other's company are calm and pragmatic, never showing the desperate need to make known their needs and feelings or to communicate their observations, as some hysterical dogs who know only the company of our species are likely to do.