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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. With no prior training they can make hooks from straight pieces of wire to obtain out-of-reach food. He never chased the rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, or deer who regularly visited. They all stood vigil for a time, nodded their heads, and flew off.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

Nonnative species have huge impacts on wildlife species everywhere… mice kill seabird chicks in their burrows, rats eat endangered bird eggs, overpopulated deer clear the understory of forests, pigs root out native plants and terrestrial animals, cats kill anything they can get their paws on. The logic of this is ridiculous.