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Dog-Owner Conversations May Be Possible in Near Future

4 The Love Of Animals

Although true canine lovers become quite adept at understanding what type of bark indicates which need or want, let’s face it, it would be much easier if our pets could simply communicate their thoughts with different words, just like we do. dogs guest post Pet Tech' In other words, it is. technically a working prototype.

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Birding Shanghai in January 2023

10,000 Birds

I tried to get a better idea of what exactly the definition of cuckoo-dove is but am still not very clear about it – Wikipedia only offers the rather formal definition “any of several species of bird in the genera Macropygia , Reinwardtoena, and Turacoena of the pigeon family.” But I may well be wrong.

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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

10,000 Birds

But it is utterly bewildering to me to see news reports about this recent science that read “… An icon knocked from its perch&# or “Archaeopteryx no longer first bird.&# But they were definitely not birds. Then, a second person walks in who is definitely Amy’s sister. You remember that her name is Emily.

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On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day

Animal Person

The veracity of this statement hinges on Scott's definition of "inhumane," and that definition must be very, very restricted, and clearly unrelated to the realities of our modern factory farm system. We have a tendency as a society to anthropomorphize our animals, especially our pets.

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Dogs as Smart as 2-yr-old Kids

Animal Person

When I saw the Live Science article about dogs being as smart as 2-year-old kids I knew that if there were any talk of ranking, my beloved greyhounds would be at the less-desirable end of the list (not from personal experience, but from reputation), and I also knew that there would be a whiff of speciesism. Do you think this helps dogs?

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Birding Shanghai in November 2022

10,000 Birds

I thought the British see themselves as very fair sportspeople – this is definitely not a good example. On the other hand, in the West, mice, and rats are also kept as pets, maybe with the same logic. But then, maybe not – it seems to be the nature of science that the more you know, the more you want to know.

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