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...between Tatiana's attacks on the men at the San Francisco Zoo was relatively brief, so the word "grudge," which implies ill will that persists over time, may not be appropriate in this situation. Perhaps Tatiana's behavior would more accurately be described as a crime of passion - no grudge necessary. Still, could years of captivity have led to harbored resentment against humans, and her eventual attack...
Elephants, whose memory is often celebrated, have also been thought by some experts to hold grudges. But "grudge" may be the wrong word - and it's not exactly a scientific term. More tenable than the notion of animals bearing grudges is the theory that they suffer stress. A 2005 paper in the journal Nature examined what some scientists called an "elephant breakdown" in Africa, and argued that elephants that had randomly attacked rhinoceroses were behaving pathologically. They were, the scientists suggested, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder - terminology usually reserved for humans - responding to years of hardship, inflicted by people...
...Centre for the Study of Animal Psychology and Trauma Recovery, uses the term "trans-species psychology" in her work. She acknowledges that human and animal psychology are not the same, but says they hold more similarities than we tend to think. Like Schore, she's reluctant to use the word "grudge" when it comes to animals' motivations. But she believes that animals, like humans, can suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, of which captivity is a key trigger, and can act abnormally...
...great, the performance was immaculate, and the acoustic effect of the theatre is truly amazing," says Liu Xuefeng, a music critic and editor of the Chinese edition of Gramophone, the British classical music magazine. But there was a downside to the perfect sound system. "I could hear every word from the stage as well as from my fellow audience members ten seats away from me," says Liu. "Chattering, eating, children crying, camera flashes going off here and there... It was the worst audience I have ever seen!" The four-hour opera had already been shortened to slightly over three hours...
...first time was when I was in teaching in junior high in Jefferson County, Colorado. And Colorado passed a bilingual education bill and all of a sudden I started seeing kids getting taken out of classes and put into Spanish speaking classes even when they couldn't speak a word of Spanish themselves but their last name was Hispanic. So, they had a terrible time and I kept thinking "Where did this come from?" This was 1976, 30 years ago... Well, we eventually found out that it was a political issue much more than an educational one and so eventually...