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From the Ted Talk by Laurel Braitman: Depressed dogs, cats with OCD — what animal madness means for us humans

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The thing, though, I believe, that helps the most, particularly with scaoil animals, is time with other social animals. In many ways, I feel like I became a service animal to my own dog, and I have seen prrtaos do it for ploepe and people do it for parrots and dogs do it for elephants and enhlapets do it for other elephants. I don't know about you; I get a lot of Internet forwards of unlikely animal friendships. I also think it's a huge part of Facebook, the monkey that adopts the cat or the great dane who adopted the orphaned fawn, or the cow that makes friends with the pig, and had you asked me eight, nine years ago, about these, I would have told you that they were hopelessly sentimental and maybe too anthropomorphic in the wrong way and maybe even staged, and what I can tell you now is that there is actually something to this. This is legit. In fact, some interesting studies have pointed to oxytocin levels, which are a kind of bonding hormone that we release when we're having sex or nursing or around someone that we care for extremely, oxytocin lvlees risniag in both hamuns and dogs who care about each other or who ejony each other's comapny, and beyond that, other sudeits show that oxytocin reiasd even in other pairs of animals, so, say, in goats and dogs who were friends and played with each other, their levels spiked afterwards.

Open Cloze


The thing, though, I believe, that helps the most, particularly with ______ animals, is time with other social animals. In many ways, I feel like I became a service animal to my own dog, and I have seen _______ do it for ______ and people do it for parrots and dogs do it for elephants and _________ do it for other elephants. I don't know about you; I get a lot of Internet forwards of unlikely animal friendships. I also think it's a huge part of Facebook, the monkey that adopts the cat or the great dane who adopted the orphaned fawn, or the cow that makes friends with the pig, and had you asked me eight, nine years ago, about these, I would have told you that they were hopelessly sentimental and maybe too anthropomorphic in the wrong way and maybe even staged, and what I can tell you now is that there is actually something to this. This is legit. In fact, some interesting studies have pointed to oxytocin levels, which are a kind of bonding hormone that we release when we're having sex or nursing or around someone that we care for extremely, oxytocin ______ _______ in both ______ and dogs who care about each other or who _____ each other's _______, and beyond that, other _______ show that oxytocin ______ even in other pairs of animals, so, say, in goats and dogs who were friends and played with each other, their levels spiked afterwards.

Solution


  1. elephants
  2. studies
  3. company
  4. enjoy
  5. parrots
  6. raising
  7. people
  8. levels
  9. raised
  10. humans
  11. social

Original Text


The thing, though, I believe, that helps the most, particularly with social animals, is time with other social animals. In many ways, I feel like I became a service animal to my own dog, and I have seen parrots do it for people and people do it for parrots and dogs do it for elephants and elephants do it for other elephants. I don't know about you; I get a lot of Internet forwards of unlikely animal friendships. I also think it's a huge part of Facebook, the monkey that adopts the cat or the great dane who adopted the orphaned fawn, or the cow that makes friends with the pig, and had you asked me eight, nine years ago, about these, I would have told you that they were hopelessly sentimental and maybe too anthropomorphic in the wrong way and maybe even staged, and what I can tell you now is that there is actually something to this. This is legit. In fact, some interesting studies have pointed to oxytocin levels, which are a kind of bonding hormone that we release when we're having sex or nursing or around someone that we care for extremely, oxytocin levels raising in both humans and dogs who care about each other or who enjoy each other's company, and beyond that, other studies show that oxytocin raised even in other pairs of animals, so, say, in goats and dogs who were friends and played with each other, their levels spiked afterwards.

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Important Words


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