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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. The book consists of essays and stories, written in the first person, most of which have a connection, sometimes a tenuous one, with the auricular.

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