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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

For example, they make three different types of tools from the long, barbed leaves of the screw pine tree. Stories about animals rescuing members of their own and other species, including humans, abound. They show how individuals of different species display compassion and empathy for those in need.

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How much bird is there, anyway?

10,000 Birds

There are probably other major trends that depend, for example, on latitude and timing. What we see here, however, is both: Most of the mammals at this small end of the graph are nocturnal, and there is clearly a lack of overlap in body size for many species. Paul and St. Peter islands.

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Birding Nabang, Yunnan (2)

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As usual, birds seem to like these off-the-way places best – eBird lists 337 species based on a little more than just 100 checklists. A few examples: the Ashy Bulbul … … Black Bulbul … … and the Grey-eyed Bubul. “Now the kangaroos are drinking from the pool” (Jen is from Australia).

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