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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Elephants, whales, hippopotamuses, giraffes, and alligators use low-frequency sounds to communicate over long distances, often miles; and bats, dolphins, whales, frogs, and various rodents use high-frequency sounds to find food, communicate with others, and navigate. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors.

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“Earth’s Wild Music”: a book review

10,000 Birds

The reader gets to know that Moore loves the song of the Meadowlark, and the sight of whales, and other natural things and beings and sounds and emanations. She now lives in Oregon and Alaska.) In general she has, as she says, a “deep love for the world’s music.”. This can be cause for a certain amount of teeth-gnashing by the reader.

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