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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

10,000 Birds

Over the pass, trees turn to pines – one very dark Eurasian Red Squirrel in them – and peaks around us become much higher. Like many others, this village was totally abandoned and only recently repopulated, with a current population of only 18 people. A Willow Tit feeds on thistle by the side of the road.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. He never chased the rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, or deer who regularly visited.

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