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Leaping Foxes

10,000 Birds

But of course the mammalian meat eaters will be happy too and reproducing like there’s no tomorrow. In Germany, our most common large mammalian predator is the Red Fox Vulpes vulpes. Foxes are very common in Germany and occur even within cities. Gotta be mouse gradation.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

It’s not surprising that animals—especially, but not only, mammals—share many emotions with us because we also share brain structures—located in the limbic system—that are the seat of our emotions. 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.

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