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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. Dogs Sniffing Out Disease. As we know, dogs have a keen sense of smell. by Marc Bekoff. Photo by Chris Gladis.

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Kermie

Animal Person

On a very quiet night during a lull in the drama of the ducks, I was researching the Greyhound racing industry, and seething over its treatment of dogs as well as the support it often gets, through subsidies, to help it survive. And you can’t drive on the Interstate without seeing signs telling you when to exit for the “Dog Track.”