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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry. One such individual was Sir George Grey, who liberated many animals on his estate (mercifully on an island), including wildebeest, monkeys, zebras, wallabies, deer, cassowaries, emu and kookaburras.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. I wondered what in the world he’d brought back and discovered the wet ball of fur was a very young bunny. Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser observed what could be called embarrassment in a male rhesus monkey.

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