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How Pets Can Improve Your Health

4 The Love Of Animals

Expert cites scientifically-proven therapeutic, physical and emotional health benefits of loving and caring for a pet. But, pets also become bona fide family members with which we establish genuine relationships—incomparable emotional bonds that can have extraordinarily positive physical and psychological impacts on humans.

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Pet Foster Care Helps To Smooth Adoption Process

4 The Love Of Animals

What you need to know about fostering pets: Time and resources – A person or family must have the time, room and resources to dedicate to a foster pet in order for it to be a positive experience for all parties involved. They may or may not be accustomed to cages or other animals.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper? I addressed this one last week.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Johnson does an excellent writing job here, balancing his emotional perspective, which has admittedly become obsessive, with a more balanced viewpoint that paints the characters he encounters with understanding, even when he is suspicious of them. And, well researched. Excellent, thorough Index.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

These strange birds are two species in their own family; White-necked or Yellow-headed, endemic to the Upper Guinea forests and Grey-necked or Red-headed, restricted to Lower Guinea forests. The timber industry-led assault on this resource is building towards ecological catastrophe.

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

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My trips abroad were limited to short family vacations to the Cote d’Azur during the first days of January and a week-long vacation to northern Tuscany / Italy in May. However, with limited financial resources back then and a baby boy to look after, I realized that it would probably be a few years until I was to see that species again.

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