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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. Empathy Among Elephants. by Marc Bekoff.

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On THE DOG WHO COULDN'T STOP LOVING

Animal Person

He was adopted by the Masson family and was apparently the most loving dog all who met him had ever had the pleasure of being licked by. There are duck stories and elephant stories and pig stories, but the reason we hear about them is because they are extraordinary. This coevolution isn't a mere side-by-side existence.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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That larger clade is in turn sister to a clade containing the four remaining totipalmate bird families, which do still seem to be related, and which needed a new order name once pelicans were removed. But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes. Make up your mind, Ringer!

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