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Review: The Moral Lives of Animals by Dale Peterson

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Unfortunately, by the nature of the problem, the history of the young field is littered with examples of researchers allowing their subconscious biases — or worse, their conscious ones — to influence how they read the data.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Dogs can differentiate dilutions of 1 part per billion, follow faint odor trails, and are 10,000 times more sensitive than humans to certain odors.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 2)

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… [They] have long, downward-curved bills, used to work through the leaf litter … They are typically long tailed, dark brown above, and white or orange-brown below. ” The website www.jwcpheasants.com seems to endorse polygamy for this species despite this being illegal in the USA for other animals such as humans.

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Who Doesn’t Like Birds, Tigers, or the Taj Mahal?

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You’ve probably enjoyed shopping for the birders in your life, carefully choosing amazing optics , books , apps , or assorted gifts to impress female friends. In my mind, nothing beats traveling to memorable destinations to experience the grandeur of both human culture and natural beauty.

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