4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. It’s not surprising that animals—especially, but not only, mammals—share many emotions with us because we also share brain structures—located in the limbic system—that are the seat of our emotions.

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Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. We simply refuse to squee. Some people love books like that. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why. Put simply, many people just can't handle the truth--or too much of it at once.

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Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

Piety is the remedy for religious guilt, and to this emotion we are all witting or unwitting heirs. Roger Scruton, A Political Philosophy [London and New York: Continuum, 2006], 61-3 [italics in original]) To such a question it is always possible to respond with a shrug of the shoulders. Duty requires us, therefore, to eat our friends.

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Meat Vegetarian Battery Fast Food 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

It was completely unharmed as the hunter had climbed a tree to catch it, so we agreed to purchase the poor animal and after taking a few images and ensuring the hunter was gone, we released it and with mixed emotions watched as it climbed high into a massive tree. What are the chances of survival for these shy forest denizens?

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 191

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

You see, I had seen members of the formerly united species very frequently in recent years, e.g. in Kazakhstan and during my time in North America back in 2006/07. Well, I never really realized how long ago it was that I had seen this species until the big Shore Lark split recently. Top Bird of the Year: Sociable Lapwing , Bawinkel, Germany.

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