Do Apes Need Psychologists?
Emotions are not the privilege of human beings. Animals exhibit a wide array of emotions, but none so much as our "cousins" the great apes. They can be happy... They can be sad... They can enjoy peaceful moments... And according to a recent study, they can also experience midlife crisis. So, I went to the Medicine.net site and looked it up. A "midlife crisis" is defined as " A period of personal emotional turmoil and coping challenges that some people encounter when they reach middle age, accompanied by a desire for change in their lives, brought on by fears and anxieties about growing older. " For humans, this phenomenon can happen anytime around the age of 45 until we are either old enough to have gained wisdom and find a renewed sense of wellbeing or too old to remember what we were feeling unhappy about. (I started at 12, hoping the rest of my life would be a cruise but I haven't gained enough wisdom to end it yet.) Since...