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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

These birds can learn to pull a string to retrieve a short stick, use the stick to pull out a longer one, then use the long stick to draw out a piece of meat. He never chased the rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, or deer who regularly visited. They also modify tools for the situation at hand, a type of invention not seen in other animals.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat. One of the first examples I ever encountered was in the books of Gerald Durrell, the famous conservationist who was an early pioneer of the roles of zoos in conservation. ” one.