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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. We were told that Marco, one of the rescued chimpanzees, does a dance during thunderstorms during which he looks like he’s in a trance. Animal Rescues: Feeling Compassion for Those in Need.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

Hunting sandhill cranes in Kentucky is a bad idea from a public relations standpoint, considering the growing cadre of birders and nature enthusiasts for whom cranes are a touchstone species. Initiating a hunting season on a large, charismatic species like a crane is no way to resuscitate hunting.

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

10,000 Birds

A that point in time, I could not imagine the adventure that I was going to experience and how birds would have rescued me. We jumped into our rented SUV Jeep Compass for a trip of 6 days. 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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