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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

We were told that Marco, one of the rescued chimpanzees, does a dance during thunderstorms during which he looks like he’s in a trance. He never chased the rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, or deer who regularly visited. Over the years Jethro approached rabbits as if they should be his friends, but they usually fled.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

The birds had evolved without a predator like this, and with the new snake having no predators, it had no problem decimating the island’s birdlife. Yes, of course it is too bad that so many animals (most often rats, mice and rabbits) have to be killed. The logic of this is ridiculous.