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Melange Monday

Animal Person

Also at Parade , which reader morganna alerted me to, is " Should Apes Be Allowed as Pets? If you cannot videotape, how about a photo of your group/class/pets club holding up a sign asking for Nosey to be rescued from her daily torment ? which includes a poll. and to rodney@thebarretogroup.com and.

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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

10,000 Birds

The hollowed-out bones connected to the lungs for respiration that we see today as a key bird adaptation to the aerobically challenging behavior of flight existed in many dinosaurs that were as far way from being bird-like as, well, as a T-rex is from being your pet parrot.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

Hare suspects that the evolutionary pressures that turned suspicious wolves into outgoing dogs were similar to the ones that turned combative apes into cooperative humans. In some cases, their research suggests that our pets are manipulating us rather than welling up with human-like feeling. See pictures of Presidents and Their Dogs.

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