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Aelian’s On The Nature Of Animals: The Classics Can Be Fun!

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A subject that Aelian returns to again and again is the still-contentious issue of the animal mind , and to what degree the creatures he describes can be accurately said to learn, reason, and have morals. When it is caught, it pisses all over itself, so that the fur is unfit to use, even though it could be put to many good applications.&#

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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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. I wondered what in the world he’d brought back and discovered the wet ball of fur was a very young bunny. Is this moral? Heinrich seems to think it is.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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advisory board, the “ Wildlife Protection Board ,” has been created to help rewrite federal rules for importing the heads and hides of African elephants, lions and rhinos is stacked with trophy hunters, including some members with direct ties to President Donald Trump and his family 2. A newly created U.S.

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