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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences?

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

This is how it looks like: Or at sunset: A species I did not come for from Shanghai is the Black-crowned Night Heron. Its species name graydoni is in honor of Philip Newenham Graydon (1864-1940), a British planter in Sabah. Why that makes Mr. Graydon worthy of having a bird species named after him is a mystery to me.

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Bernd Heinrich’s new book “White Feathers” — a review

10,000 Birds

One night three great fruit bats flew over the face of the moon. The first is from the American naturalist William Beebe: “I was walking across our compound last month when a queen termite began building her miraculous city. I saw it because I looked down. I saw it because I looked up.”

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