10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2013

When I was a preschooler, I wasn’t allowed to watch much television, but I did get a double-dose of public programming — the PBS station out of Buffalo and the CBC beaming across the border from Ontario both showed a lot of material that met with my mother’s approval and my own.

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Woodchucks Buffalo Massachusetts Fox 168

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Sheldrick is fourth-generation Kenya-born and has spent the better part of her life tending wild animals. She’s reared abandoned baby buffalo, dik-diks, impalas, zebras, warthogs, and black rhinos, among others, but no creature has beguiled her more than elephants.

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Elephants Kenya Wounded Rhinos 100

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 6, 2010

An entire lion pride battles a large buffalo to down the beast. Big Cat Week is an extension of the Big Cats Initiative, a long-term commitment by the National Geographic Society and Nat Geo WILD to stop poaching, save habitat and raise the call that big steps are needed to save big cats around the world.

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Cats Lions Leopards Botswana 100

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

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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