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Trauma bonding in Animals

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I read about the leopard and a cow being an adoptive family because of trauma bond (Media here ). I love how living things are connected and emotional. I just knew about this and it's the most endearing thing ever!! ah, life does have pretty things :) submitted by /u/No-Quail1037 [link] [comments]

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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

10,000 Birds

Today I want to talk about how it also damages conservation by, in much the same way as other media does, by reducing issues to pithy statements, devoid of nuance and heavily laden with emotion, and shaping the opinion of millions as it does so. So now there are lots of lions, and they like buffalo, so now there are less buffalo.

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The Jewel Hunter: A Book Review About One Birder’s Quest for Pittas and Beer

10,000 Birds

It’s my fantasy and it’s yours: Quit the job, say good-bye to the family, and bird. how guides and drivers are found and where they live and what their families and homes look like, birder friends who accompany him on some legs of his quest, and the quirky people he ends up sharing beers with, in bars in huts on stilts.

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