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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Donna Fernandes, president of the Buffalo Zoo, witnessed a wake for a female gorilla, Babs, who had died of cancer at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? Is this moral? by Marc Bekoff.

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Birding – An Extreme Sport

10,000 Birds

Looking left I saw a big, male buffalo behind the bush. Having learned from my Namibian experience I walked away briskly. Called the family doctor, went by, and got sent to the Tropical Diseases Institute without her taking as much as my pulse… Not good for one’s morale, I can tell you. It’s such a great place for birds.