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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. It’s not surprising that animals—especially, but not only, mammals—share many emotions with us because we also share brain structures—located in the limbic system—that are the seat of our emotions.

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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

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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. But there has to be a conversation. The world is not black and white, it is grey.

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Unlikely Healer Walks on Three Paws

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Once gregarious and outgoing, she withdrew from her family and friends, from everyone except her pet cats. Through daily letters and emails, Henry has served as a healer for Nancy, providing a bridge back to society, back to living and engaging with her family and friends. Emotional bandage,” which conveys some of his lessons.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

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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. It does not make them more or less a "tool." Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper?

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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I should add that the Big Owls taking over NYC social and even hard print media, dominating conversations with my nonbirder friends and family, are not the only owls in the five boroughs, but like a musical, the closer you are to Broadway, the closer you are to fame and fortune (and maybe even a higher quality rodent for dinner, who knows?).

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

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Non-human beings have traditionally thought of on a basically immoral level…they lack any intrinsic values, are incapable of thoughts and emotions, and are only worth how good of a coat they make or how good they taste. Many of today’s most prominent religions have perpetuated this view.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

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The skins were invaluable tools for ornithological, ecological, environmental research. 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.