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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Grief in magpies and red foxes: Saying goodbye to a friend. I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Photo by Paul Huber.

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At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The author, conservation biologist Caroline Fox, is observing the albatross’s shadow to the side of the boat. Fox notes the albatross in her “soaking-wet notebook” and watches it circle and fly back into the masking glare. Fox does an excellent job balancing these three elements, keeping the emphasis on the birds.

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Should is not a Solution

10,000 Birds

Dogs should not be used to hunt foxes. We all know the answer to that – not thinking at all about the how – how on earth you actually do that – and causing a civil war that has killed hundreds of millions. It is very natural condition to look at something going wrong and imagine what should be happening instead.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

At the same time connections between the food industry and government agencies like the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration have become so incestuous that we should expect little from them. Even “factory” agriculture has its limits. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., Jonathan Spitz Westfield, N.J.,