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Do you think that emotional intelligence courses combined with animal therapy is a good business idea? How to attract sponsors?

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Thave a friend who is working for a NGO that wants to combine emotional intelligence courses/ therapy with animals. It is intended for b2b, so these courses are for employees. Basically when these courses are being held, there will be also animals that day at the office (dogs, cats, small animals from local shelter).

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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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" However, various lines of scientific & behavioral research show that reptiles not only feel pain & experience stress the same way mammals & birds do, but that they are also likely capable of a range of emotions including anxiety, distress, excitement, fear, frustration, pain, stress, and suffering. How would people react?

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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Of course, many people still know exactly what they did when this happened. In retrospect, it kind of makes me wonder what image the organizers who booked the hotel for me had of German academic visitors … So much for my quasi-madeleine moment, though of course less emotionally attractive than the one described by Mr. Proust.

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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

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Today I want to talk about how it also damages conservation by, in much the same way as other media does, by reducing issues to pithy statements, devoid of nuance and heavily laden with emotion, and shaping the opinion of millions as it does so. Animal rights is concerned with individual animals, and their suffering and welfare.

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Contemplating California Condors

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Of course, there are those things to consider. It also makes them champions at soaring, sometimes covering one hundred miles or more a day, coasting on thermals and keeping close watch on telltale animal behavior. Condors, like all New World vultures, can disturb the human psyche. They scavenge, making them reliant on nature’s whims.

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On Helping Individuals and Utilitarianism

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Of course, I have an emotional attachment to that one individual, Violet Rays. And you wouldn't fund a program that was very expensive per unit (human or nonhuman animal) yet you often don't think about that when you're dealing with an individual. Or paid for food for a year at a rescue kennel.

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On "Wild Justice"

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" Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals ," By Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce, is the most recent (for me) book that debunks myths about the differences between human and nonhuman animals. And those mythical differences, of course, have historically been used to legitimize our use and treatment of our nonhuman cousins.

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