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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Sea lion mothers wail when watching their babies being eaten by killer whales. 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. If she’d been left alone, she would have fallen prey to a lion or other predator. Raven Justice?

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Awkward Fostering

4 The Love Of Animals

Dogs are likely to be true-born wet-nurses; in particular, it is related to whelp dogs, which are often used as step-mothers for young predators in the Zoos. In 2006, in Yalta private zoo (Ukraine) two white lions were left without mother’s care.

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