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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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At the same time, reading When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers , edited by Susan Fox Rogers, set me wondering about viewers’ reactions, especially New Yorkers who have never seen an owl outside of a zoo or a picture book. But–is that it?

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Donna Fernandes, president of the Buffalo Zoo, witnessed a wake for a female gorilla, Babs, who had died of cancer at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? by Marc Bekoff.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

10,000 Birds

She has grown up in the reserve and has no experience of the environment of which tourists would not be a permanent, however boring part of. During 1990s, the South China Tiger became extinct in the wild (some still survive in zoos) and the number of extinct races reached four. Telia, copyright © Nitin Bhardwaj.

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