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The Marvelous Self-Awareness of Elephants: Insights into their Intelligent Minds

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Elephants are one of the most fascinating creatures on the planet, renowned for their incredible memory and emotional intelligence. In this article, we'll explore the fascinating research on elephant self-awareness, how it's been tested, and what it tells us about their amazing minds. What is Self-Awareness?

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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

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and then the life and writings of Harriet Mann Miller, a New York State native who under the name Olive Thorne Miller wrote eleven books and hundreds of articles about nature in the mid- and late 19th century. She frames her story with first a Doonesbury comic strip (remember Dick Davenport, the bird watcher?) Rogers can.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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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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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species–A Book Review

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Marybeth Lima’s ‘real life’ work is academic, she is a professor of biological and agricultural engineering as Louisiana State University with research interests in community-based design and service-learning in engineering. I think this is unique in the Big Year Narrative genre and I appreciate it.

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Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth – A Film Review

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The best moments are when the film simply lets the images do the work and we watch the eagles soar, hunt, and take care of their nest and their totally adorable eaglet, composer David Majzlin’s original music echoing our emotions of wonder. Personally, I would prefer simply the sounds of the rainforest.) Tampos, G., & Salvador, D.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. Jonathan Elphick and John Fanshawe provided “specialist research” and support.” About 300 stories are used throughout the book.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

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Researchers have also learned that the cancer-causing chemicals that form in beef as it cooks also tend to form in chicken. Very importantly, the breast-feeding years create emotional security in the child through the many hours of intimate contact with the mother. (Dr. Sadly, Gillette's experience is not unique.

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