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Jinx Warbler Vanquished

10,000 Birds

Jim McCormac, one of Ohio’s best, most avid birders has not done a newspaper interview in the past five years where he failed to point out that “one of my very accomplished birding friends–the editor of a major birding magazine–has not seen a certain bird, the Connecticut Warbler.&#

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser observed what could be called embarrassment in a male rhesus monkey. After sensing that no other monkeys saw him tumble, he marched off, back high, head and tail up, as if nothing had happened. Stories about animals rescuing members of their own and other species, including humans, abound.

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