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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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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

We regularly subject rodents to pain, starvation, solitary confinement, and grotesque disfigurement. The animal-welfare groups have failed in their most ambitious efforts to protect laboratory rodents. "We With rodents off the table, though, it's not clear what's left for the activists to do. Part V: Me and My Monkey.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

10,000 Birds

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?).