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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Animal Rescues: Feeling Compassion for Those in Need. As we all know, dogs are “man’s best friend.”

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Rescue for the rescuer.

4 The Love Of Animals

Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Emotional Exhaustion these are all familiar topics to those of us who spend our time helping animals. They shared with me that they have the ability to sense our emotions and feelings. Cherie can be reached through her website [link]. Article Source: [link].

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

We can treasure the cultural and historical bond between animals and domesticated animals only by ignoring the emotional bond. Children naturally love animals, but the many “uses we have found for them” lead us to teach our children to save their compassion for companion animals exclusively. More and more people do not.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong. I look forward to casting my vote for compassion. But compassion and civil sense from the large farm entrepreneurs might be more helpful. To the Editor: Nicholas D.

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Beautiful Blue Backyard Bird

10,000 Birds

In the finest tradition of Romanticism, gulls dwell in the mystic world of dark and morbid imagery and emotions, which is expressed in often eroticized ways of aesthetic self-dramatization*. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! They’re Back!

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

10,000 Birds

We jumped into our rented SUV Jeep Compass for a trip of 6 days. It is a deep intellectual and artistic exercise, which authentically captures my passion and emotion while watching birds. I sat for hours, dreamily watching those rocks raising to the sky, covered by the dense primary vegetation of this subtropical area.

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