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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

A few years ago while I was watching elephants in the Samburu National Reserve in Northern Kenya with elephant researcher Iain Douglas-Hamilton, I noticed a teenaged female, Babyl, who walked very slowly and had difficulty taking each step. Stories about animals rescuing members of their own and other species, including humans, abound.

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Business Birding Basics

10,000 Birds

If you are fortunate like me in the business of sewage, grime, litter and dirt, your travel will inevitably lead you to a wastewater treatment plant with swallows and other birds all around you. My Kenya list of 69 species consists entirely of birds I saw during business trips to Nairobi. How difficult can it be?

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