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Leaping Foxes

10,000 Birds

In German, if you are a rodent and you are smaller than – say – a human hand, you’re a mouse. The Common Buzzards , for example, who usually hunt by circling high above the landscape, will hover in kestrel fashion much more frequently. The kestrels , on the other hand, will more frequently hunt from low perches.

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5 Puzzling Toys That Will Keep Your Pup Entertained for Hours

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A bored puppy is an unhappy puppy, and possibly a destructive puppy. Of course, the fact of the matter is that you provide the food in your household, or one of the other humans does. What can your pup do to exercise their mind, if they aren’t involved in the pack’s hunt? Dogs are intelligent animals. Ball-IN-Ball.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

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Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8). I could go on and on.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

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No one in the room–neither dog nor human–can tell which cup hides the biscuit. See TIME’s photo essay “ Puppies Behind Bars “ Henry the schnoodle just did a remarkable thing. Wolves, for example–the probable ancestors of dogs–live in packs that hunt together and have a complex hierarchy.

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Falakhe’s Story

10,000 Birds

It was, based on a quick glance, a puppy, around 6 to 7 months old. There are a lot of reasons why Painted Wolves are struggling, and many of them are human caused. We hadn’t been on the road long before a shout went out that a dog had been seen, and we quickly turned back, and there was my first Painted Wolf in Mkuze.

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Blue-Collar Dogs on Nat Geo WILD

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The show highlights dogs that work in all kinds of jobs, from medicine to border patrol, proving to be indispensable to their human colleagues and those who benefit from their work! Many doctors, scientists and therapists are harnessing dogs’ extraordinary work capabilities to enhance and even save human lives.

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