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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. Sea lion mothers wail when watching their babies being eaten by killer whales. A Grateful Whale.

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T.H. White: When Writers Become Bad Falconers

10,000 Birds

Macdonald tries to come to terms with her father’s death by attempting to train a Northern Goshawk , resulting in the the lovely descriptions and meditations found within H is for Hawk. Spoiler: the hawk ends up like the fish, not the whale. Do I have sympathy for haunted people with bad childhoods? This, excuse me, is b t.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

I know on some level, I think that’s something almost all of us can get behind…no one, except the most callous and cold-hearted of the human race things its fine to torture animals, or deny that they are capable of pain and suffering. Obviously its perfectly fine to concentrate on one particular problem (i.e.