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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

Instead, he simply points at the cup on the right. Wolves, for example–the probable ancestors of dogs–live in packs that hunt together and have a complex hierarchy. Wolves also lick one another’s mouths, particularly when one wolf returns to the pack. See a video on how dogs think like us. Evolving Gifts.

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Thank a lemming

10,000 Birds

Peregrine don’t take many, being more of a bird prey specialist, but apart from that they are the daily feature on the menu of foxes, ermine, wolves, Rough-legged Hawks , Gyrfalcon and especially Snow Owls. If they each raised nine owlets, the owlets alone would have eaten over 25,000 lemmings from that valley.

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Germany’s Great Bustards and how to see them

10,000 Birds

Sadly, this population too went into a steep decline until only 57 animals were left in Germany in 1997, raising fears about their imminent extinction in the country. Follow the track through a gap in the pine tree plantation and immediately turn right. Once you’re on the tower, the bustards are often seen towards the right.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Cows, domestic sheep, chickens and many others would not survive if they were not raised for human consumption, protected from malnutrition, disease and predators. Wolves eat sheep. He’s right: I don’t care deeply about the suffering of animals I eat, wear or otherwise benefit from. Tuna eat mackerel.