Compassion Experiments Species Transported 
10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2012
Knowledge is more likely to be shared via shared experience than the exchange of data, though both happen. Homing pigeons were apparently able to find their way home after being transported in a closed box a long distance away (many hundreds of miles in some cases). In any event, they were surprisingly good at this. If not, why not?
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
Not only have dogs and humans influenced each other for tens of thousands of years, they have done so in far more profound ways than any other two species on earth, and primarily in the direction of acting on the capacity for love in all its different manifestations, such as showing sympathy, feeling empathy, and expressing compassion" (xi).
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