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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

10,000 Birds

Up to 100 kg – possibly a female, my guide and a bear researcher from the wildlife charity Callisto, Yannis Tsanakis, tells me. Over the pass, trees turn to pines – one very dark Eurasian Red Squirrel in them – and peaks around us become much higher. At the same time, a Peregrine Falcon flies across the valley.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. 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. by Marc Bekoff. Jethro the dog.

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