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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

This is quite a big deal for an island group that had no mammals save bats for millions of years. The island was being ravaged by rabbits that were destroying every last tree, threatening the future of three lizards and two snakes. Gerald Durrell relates one story in trying to save the endemic herpetofauna of Round Island in Mauritius.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Elephants, whales, hippopotamuses, giraffes, and alligators use low-frequency sounds to communicate over long distances, often miles; and bats, dolphins, whales, frogs, and various rodents use high-frequency sounds to find food, communicate with others, and navigate. They were brought separately to the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tenn.,

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