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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. Chimpanzees and elephants grieve the loss of family and friends, and gorillas hold wakes for the dead. They get much of their food using tools, and they do this better than chimpanzees.

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Review: Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil – The.

10,000 Birds

This opening section of the book is excellent in and of itself but this is a field guide so I must, obviously, speak to the book’s merits as a tool for identifying birds. Each family of birds has a short introductory paragraph and most genera get a sentence or two of description. Thanks for visiting!

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A Question of Migration

10,000 Birds

Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) The idea was to see if those without magnets taped to their heads got less lost then those with the magnets. People were doing things like that with birds, sharks, and humans. Specifically, Itcher Tern.

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