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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

In some cases, their research suggests that our pets are manipulating us rather than welling up with human-like feeling. Meanwhile, the scientists also raised a separate group of foxes under identical conditions, except for one difference: they didn’t have to pass a test to mate. Ones that came up to the scientists did.

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Do Birds Feel Love?

10,000 Birds

It’s easy to observe this attachment behavior in parrots, especially pets. While we’re used to declarations that our pet parrots “love” us just as we love them, and they can be quite demonstrative in showing their affection, the evidence is thinner for wild birds. Needless to say, this makes them quite pleasant to raise.

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