4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

In some cases, their research suggests that our pets are manipulating us rather than welling up with human-like feeling. Meanwhile, the scientists also raised a separate group of foxes under identical conditions, except for one difference: they didn’t have to pass a test to mate. Ones that came up to the scientists did.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

It is mostly a question of economics – raising just one is troublesome enough given the resources required to feed and educate the chick. This research was actually done only about 10 km away from a place I once lived for a couple of years, in Radolfszell, Germany. No surprise then that the species is listed as Vulnerable.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In contrast, the females need to make sure not to get duped into raising actual cuckoos – the buntings are a targeted host species ( source ). On the other hand, in the West, mice, and rats are also kept as pets, maybe with the same logic.

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