VERIFY: Yes, animals do show affection just like humans

well it is a day to celebrate love in all its forms we humans aren't the only species who show affection so the verified team took a closer look at how our furry friends show their love we went right to the experts at the Louisville Zoo talking to Dan Maloney he said there are actually a lot of ways humans and animals are similar think of typical human mating rituals like a classic slow dance serenading your sweetheart Maloney says types of some types of birds actually do the same thing as for k

issing well certain animals we'll give a smooch but it might not mean the same thing in animal world and cran often have all kinds of dances that they do you know in courtship with with one another so all those rituals that we we think of that might be human rituals I think a lot of animals tend to repeat and duplicate and we certainly have imitated them for many many millennia I so Penguins for example mate and stay together for years raising the chicks together as a family unit which sounds pr

etty familiar right uh and you know they will call to each other certainly that is a a way to intensify the bond they'll groom each other and they take turns sitting on the eggs it's all part of the part of the bonding process that goes on for years said that grooming specifically especially among primates is a common way show their affection well if you have something fun you'd like us to look into we'd be happy to do so just send us a message email us at verify whas11.com