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Chimpanzees Mourn Their Dead?

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Heck, even my cats visibly missed old Charlotte who died last August. This is because they quote some guy from the USC Jane Goodall Research Center who throws doubt on the premise. Tags: chimpanzees jane goodall animal research. I'm sure many will dismiss these studies regardless.

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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

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They feed on animal plankton and build their nests by burrowing in the dirt on offshore islands. Last year, beginning about Halloween, thousands of juvenile auklets started washing ashore dead from California’s Farallon Islands to Haida Gwaii (also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands) off central British Columbia.

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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 Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

Somewhat superfluously, the paper starts with the rather pompous statement “In animal behavior, hunting is one of the crucial activities that can sustain population sustainability” – is it really necessary to explain that birds need to eat? Must have been a camera fault.

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