Do Animals Laugh? What's So Funny?

Studies suggest that like humans, monkeys, dogs and even rats love to laugh.
Jaak Panksepp, a neuroscientist at Bowling Green State University says that forms of play and laughter exist in other animals.

When chimps play and chase each other, they pant in a manner that is strikingly like human laughter. Dogs have a similar response. Rats chirp while they play, in a way that resembles our giggles. When rats are playfully tickled, they seem to like it, seeking to be tickled more and they chirp and bond socially with their human tickler. Apparently joyful rats also preferred to hang out with other chirpers.

Laughter in humans starts young. Young children laugh and shriek abundantly in the midst of their other rough-and-tumble activities, Panksepp notes. Studies suggest that laughter in animals typically involves similar play chasing.

Adult rodents have no well-developed cognitive sense of humor, young rats have a marvelous sense of fun.

Meanwhile, there's the question of what's so darn funny in the animal world.
Traditionally, science deemed animals incapable of joy and woe. Maybe the scientists are learning something.

I shall post some videos on animals clearly exhibiting sense of humor to prove this point. I don’t need a laboratory study to know that animals laugh.