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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Nonetheless, Chino, a golden retriever who lived with Mary and Dan Heath in Medford, Oregon, and Falstaff, a 15-inch koi, had regular meetings for six years at the edge of the pond where Falstaff lived. They don’t have expressive faces and don’t seem to tell us much behaviorally.

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When birds attack!

10,000 Birds

In the event I’m in a life or death struggle with an Oregon Junco or a particularly feral Dunnock I’d rather my birding companion was at least nominally on my side. The females quickly pair off again with a new male who usually has a more relaxed attitude to the odd moving kangaroos in his patch.