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"Change of Heart": New Book about Animal Activism

Critter News

The author is Nick Cooney and he's the Director of The Humane League, an animal advocacy non-profit with offices in Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington DC. What messages and techniques have been proven effective in getting people to make compassionate decisions like boycotting fur and adopting companion animals instead of buying them?

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. Grief in magpies and red foxes: Saying goodbye to a friend.

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Comebackers

10,000 Birds

However, these islands that were predator-free sanctuaries eventually turned into ecological sinks. In the mid 1700s, fur-traders began introducing foxes up and down the Aleutian chain, in order to generate some more raw material work with. They were secure in their isolated home here until humanity came to Laysan in the 1890s.

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