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Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans

10,000 Birds

The authors resist getting mystical or sentimental, nor do they unduly move humans front and center except as fellow-beings that affect the environment their subjects live in (despite the subtitle.) Nothing keeps a human reader more engaged than a genuine character, and the birds here are exactly that.

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The Best Sales Call Questions are Powered by Outstanding Emotional Intelligence

SalesFuel

Whether it’s needs discovery or handling objections, emotional intelligence will inform the best sales call questions needed for B2B success. Likewise, a keen EQ will help you comprehend the buyer’s emotions and motivations. In modern selling, with the fusion of technology and humanity a certain balanced integration is essential.

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7 Disruptive Emotions That Sabotage Your Selling

Sales and Marketing Management

In fact, it’s one of the most painful of all human experiences. The best salespeople master techniques to get past the noes and keep pushing toward the yeses – but in the process, they must field a lot of emotional turmoil. This is why managing disruptive emotions is the primary meta-skill of sales. Desperation. Significance.

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Outdoor/Feral Cat Problem? Call the SWAT Team

10,000 Birds

There would then be three options: 1) re-home them to people who will keep them inside; 2) drop them off at an animal shelter as far away as possible; or 3) humanely euthanize them. Human rights, property rights, and wildlife rights – all in one steel container. It’s time for this to end. How can we get this idea going?

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A Little Queer Natural History

10,000 Birds

It is however, a review with a high potential for offense, hurt feelings and other emotional drama that normally drives us all into fields and woods to watch birds. The “clickbait” title for this post could well have been “The gays are making our bears queer” but no, this is a book review, not a cable news show.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors.

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A Tribute to a Wildlife Lover’s Support Team

10,000 Birds

I routinely vow to put an emotional wall between the birds I care for and me, to keep in mind that a good percentage of them will not make it, and to realize my heart is already in pieces so I should protect myself from further damage. More than 90% of wildlife injuries are caused by humans.

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