4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

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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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Calls include nasal wheezes, squeals, cackling and churring; combinations of rather high nasal “u-err”, quick high nasal “ii” and rolling “pwaaowa” calls uttered by groups of two or more individuals. Finally, getting to the slightly annoying but somehow obligatory mention of mammals seen at Longcanggou. Fortunately, they are not.

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Birds Pandas Mammals China 221

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

I was in contact with a group of birders for whom I arranged and guided an annual tour to Africa. This image (by Marius Coetzee) shows Adam Riley & David Hoddinott with a group in Nsuta Forest, a forest reserve that is in the process of being clear-felled and settled by subsistence farmers.

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Animal Person

JULY 3, 2009

This particular group fits in with other Bekoff books as well as those by Jonathan Balcombe and Jeffrey Masson (see here for more on some of them from April of 2008). And those mythical differences, of course, have historically been used to legitimize our use and treatment of our nonhuman cousins.

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Morals Mammals Humane Emotional 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The Achiever’s survey voyages took place from 2005 to 2008; the goal was to collect baseline data on sea mammals and marine birds. It’s a small group of 10 to 12 researchers and crew members, and Fox is the sole person responsible for the bird surveys. And, this was badly needed. ” There are amazing stories here.

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