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

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. They’d also have to pay for every aspect of care the injured bird requires, as well as the emotional suffering of the wildlife rehabilitator!”. It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 241

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2013

Over the last two weeks, we raised our faces and sniffed. Not only did this lead to the historical demand that fire be suppressed — it also created, I think, an emotional, aesthetic reaction to burned landscapes. For us here in the valley, though, at least it cleared the air. On the whole, people do not value them.

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Endangered Species South Dakota Woodpeckers Sheep 160

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong. To the Editor: Nicholas D. Kristof’s column broke my heart. Susan Beal Brooklyn, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: Nicholas D.

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