I'm not going to clutter up the list with more discussion of sex. You can read what I've written about this in the archives, as we've "been there/done that" before -- several times -- on Lactnet. However, once again, I must chime in as an anthropologist and say that non-human animals do have emotions, just as humans do. This is not a distinction that can be made to separate humans from other animals, just as culture, tool-making, and reliance on learned behavior, and even language are not distinctions that clearly separate humans from non-human animals. And it *is* clearly oxytocin that is responsible for that wonderful affectionate, loving feeling you have when you breastfeed. Read the work of Niles Newton. Prolactin levels return to their pre-pregnant/non-lactating levels within six months of birth, and are not associated with continued milk production, continued amenorrhea, or feelings of affiliation the way oxytocin is. Kathy Dettwyler Some books on animal emotions: 1. Minding Animals: Awareness, Emotions, and Heart -- by Marc Bekoff, Jane Goodall; Hardcover 2. Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions (Series in Affective Science) by Jaak Panskepp, Jaak Panksepp (Hardcover) 3. The Smile of a Dolphin : Remarkable Accounts of Animal Emotions by Marc Bekoff (Editor), Stephen Jay Gould (Foreword) (Hardcover - October 2000) 4. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin, Paul Ekman (Editor) (Hardcover - April 1998) 5. The Cat Who Cried for Help : Attitudes, Emotions, and the Psychology of Cats by Nicholas Dodman (Paperback) 6. The Intelligence of Dogs : A Guide to the Thoughts, Emotions, and Inner Lives of Our Canine Companions by Stanley Coren (Paperback - 7 The Body Language of Horses : Revealing the Nature of Equine Needs, Wishes, and Emotions and How Horses Communicate Them--For Owners, Breeders, Trainersby Tom Ainslie, Bonnie 8. Animal Equality : Language and Liberation by Joan Dunayer, Carol J. Adams _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html