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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

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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Take Wing and Fly Here by Priyanka Kumar

10,000 Birds

Because we are so often trapped inside his head, my overwhelming reaction to his chapters, by the time I was halfway through the book, was “oh no. As a result, I couldn’t help siding with the people he was accusing of abandoning him. She engages in a borderline emotional affair with J.K.’s

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

But I found that if my goal was for my message to be received, I had to judiciously use accurate terms because there was an intense emotional reaction to them that prevented the message from being received intact, or unadulterated by the emotional baggage. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. Chance is so close!

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