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Do animals have religions?

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I was out to dinner with my husband and the question just popped into my head- every human civilization has independently developed religions and I was just wondering everything we don’t know about the animal world as we can’t communicate with them. My train of thought is: animals can communicate ?

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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

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Whales are cows. So, for example, humans are apes. The point is, of course, that whales are not cows. Whales emerge from within the larger group of mammals that includes cattle, deer, pigs, camels, with camels being the most deeply rooted. (So You should have said whales. Even though whales are cows.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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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

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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. None of (his treatment of the hawk) was conscious,” writes MacDonald. This, excuse me, is b t.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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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. . – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights.