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Many Animals Dying in Australian Wildfires

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The official human death toll stood at 181 from the weekend's deadly fires and authorities said it would exceed 200. There's no doubt across that scale of landscape and given the intensity of the fires, millions of animals would have been killed," he said. We are losers. The story says millions of animals may have died.

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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. I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. Grief in magpies and red foxes: Saying goodbye to a friend.

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