The short answer though is, yes, animals do feel emotions. You only need to look at a dog wagging its tail to see that, but it is backed up with research too, some of which we'll look at below. Animals get excited, happy, and scared in the same way we do. Humans are animals after all [5].

Do animals have emotions feelings?

Pythagoreans long ago believed that animals experience the same range of emotions as humans (Coates 1998), and current research provides compelling evidence that at least some animals likely feel a full range of emotions, including fear, joy, happiness, shame, embarrassment, resentment, jealousy, rage, anger, love, ...

Do animals control emotions?

Studies in animals can find survival circuits universal to mammals, like fear and hunger. "Survival phenomena are closely associated with emotions," LeDoux said. ... "These areas are organized similarly in spite of the fact that they control different behavioral responses in different species," LeDoux said.