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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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Paradise Regained

10,000 Birds

I kind of expected to see some sort of industrial wasteland; but a fair amount of forest is still there. I would have guessed it would be the first species to abandon this now-disturbed site. Still, the current pandemic’s extreme social-distancing requirements have limited my site options. No doubt, my low expectations were key.

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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. Put simply, many people just can't handle the truth--or too much of it at once.

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