Cute Smiling Baby Gecko

submitted by newtboy
8 years 8 months 1 week ago
'Cause when you're smiling, when you're smiling, the whole world smiles with you.

9 Comments

newtboyjokingly says...

Funny, the corners of it's mouth look upturned to me. As far as I know, that makes a smile. There's no need for anthropomorphism, or emotional content, it's all about the shape of the mouth....or do you think :-) doesn't count as a smile either because it's not human?
Also, my savanna monitor definitely showed emotion on it's face.

Harzzachsaid:

Hey, i upvoted this video. Because it is cute
But this is NOT A SMILE!

Harzzachsays...

It may look to us like this gecko is smiling, but only because we interpret his mouth line as a smile. This animal does not show its emotions like we do. For example, dogs do not smile, when they are happy, they waggle with their tail. In fact, they do not smile at all. Grumpy cat may be in bliss, but we only see its "sad" mouth. Awww, poor cat is sad!

Therefore ... it does look very cute, but still ... this is not a smile. And it does NOT count as a smile, because this animal does not show its emotions through movement of its facial muscles

newtboysaid:

Funny, the corners of it's mouth look upturned to me. As far as I know, that makes a smile. There's no need for anthropomorphism, or emotional content, it's all about the shape of the mouth....or do you think :-) doesn't count as a smile either because it's not human?
Also, my savanna monitor definitely showed emotion on it's face.

newtboysays...

You are welcome to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is. ;-)

My dogs, and almost every dog I've ever known that doesn't have medical problems causing facial deformity or paralysis, DOES smile when happy. They also wag their tails. If you can't see emotion in a dog's face, I think you need serious therapy (or a new dog). It's clearly there to see.
You picked a cat (cats, who normally don't show much facial emotion) with a facial deformity to 'prove' your point that animals don't show emotion? OK, well, then lets look at Steven Hawking (or any severe facially paralyzed stroke victim)...he never shows emotion, so that proves that people don't smile either, right? That's how I read your argument.

And again....does this... :-) ...have a smile? But it's just a drawing and has no emotion to display...so how can it smile by your definition? It can smile because a smile is upturned mouth corners, and not necessarily an anthropomorphic display of emotion through facial muscles.
EDIT: Ascribing emotional content to a smile is how YOU INTERPRET the smile. The mouth shape IS the smile.

It may look to us like this gecko is HAPPY, but that's mostly because it's mouth is smiling. I think that's the argument you may want to be making instead of the 'animals don't smile' argument.

Harzzachsaid:

It may look to us like this gecko is smiling, but only because we interpret his mouth line as a smile. This animal does not show its emotions like we do. For example, dogs do not smile, when they are happy, they waggle with their tail. In fact, they do not smile at all. Grumpy cat may be in bliss, but we only see its "sad" mouth. Awww, poor cat is sad!

Therefore ... it does look very cute, but still ... this is not a smile. And it does NOT count as a smile, because this animal does not show its emotions through movement of its facial muscles

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