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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. The 10-year-old dog and 4-month-old joey eventually became best friends.

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How much bird is there, anyway?

10,000 Birds

Those mammals consist of the previously mentioned fossorial members of Insectivora, Rodents, and bats. If we were to remove the hooved animals and non-Mustelidae carnivores (i.e.,

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