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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Crows from the remote Pacific island of New Caledonia show incredibly high-level skills when they make and use tools. They get much of their food using tools, and they do this better than chimpanzees. They can add features to improve a tool, a skill supposedly unique to humans. As we all know, dogs are “man’s best friend.”

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Starling & Grackle Bird Feeding Tips

10,000 Birds

She’s a professional speaker and story-teller and her writing can be found in several publications including WildBird Magazine, Outdoor News, and Birding Business. She wrote the books Disapproving Rabbits and City Birds/Country Birds. Safflower is a great tool when dealing with grackles at the feeder. [.]

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