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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

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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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of October 2012?

10,000 Birds

Weekends carry more emotional heft in most of our personal planners, probably because we save all of our fun for Friday through Sunday. Keeping your eyes to the skies is easy when you’re looking at volcanoes (Read about Duncan’s explorations of New Zealand’s volcano country ).