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Everglades Long-Legged Birds Feed Their Young To Alligators, Everything is Good.

10,000 Birds

You know the famous novel about rabbits , wherein among other things the traveling bunnies find themselves in a warren where everyone is well fed and happy, and that’s a problem. It turns out that there is an example of this with wading birds in the Florida Everglades. There is bird version of this in the Everglades.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Sea lion mothers wail when watching their babies being eaten by killer whales. If she’d been left alone, she would have fallen prey to a lion or other predator. He never chased the rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, or deer who regularly visited. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Jethro the dog.

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