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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin gives the traveling naturalist the tools needed to fully appreciate and experience the Galápagos Islands. I wish I had read this book. They complement Kricher’s text., I also think there are chapters where the photographs crowd out the text.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Sea lion mothers wail when watching their babies being eaten by killer whales. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry.

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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

10,000 Birds

It’s the same reason so many people now cut up their plastic six-pack holders — because the connection between their soda and the strangled sea lion becomes obvious, visual and intimate. Statistics come to life in the suffering of one dove or one mockingbird, the one needlessly stricken and dying for the sake of a personal choice.

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