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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. Donna Fernandes, president of the Buffalo Zoo, witnessed a wake for a female gorilla, Babs, who had died of cancer at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo. by Marc Bekoff. Photo by Paul Huber. Empathy Among Elephants.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

10,000 Birds

Pink Pigeons were featured on episode four of the second season of The Zoo , the excellent television series about The Bronx Zoo,* and their story was disturbing. Meanwhile, on The Zoo, the keepers have been creating an environment for Thelma and Louise so they can nurture the hoped-for egg from The Stud and Serendipity.

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Birding Kangding, Sichuan

10,000 Birds

A paper describes how a Golden Snub-nosed Monkey (which looks a bit like somebody had kicked Donald Trump in the nose, which in itself may probably not be such a bad idea) ate three Chinese Babax chicks from a nest in Shennongjia National Park. According to Chinese researchers, nest predation and brood parasitism are the two main reasons.

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