Animal Tales

knightofalbion

\r\n \r\n Animal Love:
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\nhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ove-other.html
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\nhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...DO-grieve.html\r\n

liverock

\r\n \r\n Interesting video showing 2 guys rescuing a deer stranded on a frozen lake.
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\nI think the abrupt ending of the video is due to the cameraman putting the camera down to give the deer a push up the bank.

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\nhttps://www.wimp.com/rescuedeer/\r\n

kind2creatures

\r\n \r\n Clever Eurasian jays plan for the future
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\nBy Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC Nature
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\nJays are members of the corvid family, which is known for its intelligence
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\nExperiments with Eurasian jays have shown that the birds store food that they will want in the future � �planning� for their impending needs.
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Jays are members of the corvid family
A favourite food for these colourful birds is acorns, which they cache
\nthroughout autumn and unearth during the winter
A single bird can bury several thousand acorns each year, so jays play a
\ncrucial role in the spread of oak woodlands

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kind2creatures

\r\n \r\n There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
\n~ Winston Churchill ~
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This is a thread for animal lovers. Anything to do with animals - interesting news stories, articles, quotations, poems etc. post it here!
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\r\nKinship
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\r\nElla Wheeler Wilcox
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\r\nI am the voice of the voiceless;
\r\nThrough me the dumb shall speak,
\r\nTill the deaf world\'s ear be made to hear
\r\nThe wrongs of the wordless weak.
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\r\nFrom street, from cage and from kennel,
\r\nFrom stable and zoo, the wail
\r\nOf my tortured kin proclaims the sin
\r\nOf the mighty against the frail.
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\r\nOh, shame on the mothers of mortals,
\r\nWho have not stooped to teach
\r\nOf the sorrow that lies in dear, dumb eyes,
\r\nThe sorrow that has no speech.
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\r\nThe same force formed the sparrow
\r\nThat fashioned man the king;
\r\nThe God of the whole gave a spark of soul
\r\nTo furred and to feathered thing.
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\r\nAnd I am my brother\'s keeper,
\r\nAnd I will fight his fight,
\r\nAnd speak the word for beast and bird,
\r\nTill the world shall set things right.

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Animal Love:
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\r\nhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ove-other.html
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\r\nhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...DO-grieve.html

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Love the poem knightofalbion, thanks for sharing, andI will have a look at the videos when Ive topped up my gigs
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Interesting video showing 2 guys rescuing a deer stranded on a frozen lake.
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\r\nI think the abrupt ending of the video is due to the cameraman putting the camera down to give the deer a push up the bank.

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\r\nhttps://www.wimp.com/rescuedeer/

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Clever Eurasian jays plan for the future
\r\n Amazing birds, and people just seem to take birds and animals for granted, and don\'t realise just how clever they are.
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\r\nBy Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC Nature
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\r\nJays are members of the corvid family, which is known for its intelligence
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\r\nExperiments with Eurasian jays have shown that the birds store food that they will want in the future – “planning” for their impending needs.
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Jays are members of the corvid family
A favourite food for these colourful birds is acorns, which they cache
\r\nthroughout autumn and unearth during the winter
A single bird can bury several thousand acorns each year, so jays play a
\r\ncrucial role in the spread of oak woodlands

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There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
\r\n~ Winston Churchill ~
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\r\n kind2creatures, that is so true, what Winston churchill says, just to be around a horse takes away any sadness or stress, you may be feeling.
\r\nIt looks to me like the ones in the photo are meeting each another for the first time, as thats the way our old fella use to stand when he was meeting another horse for the first time.
\r\nLovely picture thanks for sharing.
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knightofalbion

\r\n \r\n This is one of the most remarkable animal tales you\'ll ever hear about.
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\nTwo whales - mother and baby - trapped and exhausted, all looks lost...but then
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\nhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...and-beach.html\r\n

kind2creatures

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This is one of the most remarkable animal tales you\'ll ever hear about.
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\nTwo whales - mother and baby - trapped and exhausted, all looks lost...but then
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\nhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...and-beach.html

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Wonderful story knight, thanks.

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liverock

\r\n \r\n All together now, Aaaaaaaah!
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\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWXigjFm4TM\r\n

knightofalbion

\r\n \r\n Gentle world:
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\nAll creatures fear before danger, life is dear to all. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill - Gautama Buddha
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\nI wish no living thing to suffer pain - Percy Bysshe Shelley
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\nUntil he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace - Albert Schweitzer\r\n

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All together now, Aaaaaaaah!
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\r\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWXigjFm4TM

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That\'s just far too cute!\r\n

ozzie

\r\n \r\n It is most unusual to see a koala drinking water let alone bathing in it, they usually get their moisture from eucalyptus leaves, but I guess if you are caught in a bush fire then any form of cooling is greatfully accepted.
\r\nVery cute
\r\nhttps://cuteoverload.com/2009/02/04/koala-relief/\r\n

kind2creatures

\r\n \r\n Nice story of how a deer became protective of a mother goose.
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\r\n \r\n Bambi Protects Mother Goose
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\nby Rebecca (animaltalk.us) on April 9, 2011
\nin Animal Pictures,Animal Stories,Cute Animal Pictures,Unusual Friends
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\nBUFFALO, NY � It�s a scene right out of a Disney movie, a mother goose has lost her lifelong mate and was left alone to create and tend to her nest. She spends the day sheltering her eggs from the cold spring air inside an empty cemetery urn chosen as home.
\nThe loss of her male partner now makes her vulnerable to any would-be predators who choose to approach the nest. But, in an unlikely twist of fate, an adult deer has befriended the mother goose, taking over the role of protector.
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\nThis animal arrangement is highly unusual, since there�s no known way that a deer and goose can communicate. Yet somehow the deer has come to understand the need of the nesting mother.
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\nThe deer now spends its days near the urn acting as guardian when needed. As passersby approach the area the deer stands and places itself between the person and the nesting goose. On one occasion the deer even took a protective stance taking on a barking dog near the area of the urn.
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\nHow this nature story ends is anyone�s guess, and there�s no telling if the deer and goose will part ways after the goslings hatch or whether this special friendship will continue beyond the nest.
\nEither way we�ll keep a watchful eye on these two friends and let you know how it works out.
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\nMeteorologist Andy Parker
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\nhttps://northbuffalo.wgrz.com/news/environment/bambi-protects-mother-goose/54141
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knightofalbion

\r\n \r\n I could not have slept to-night if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground
\n- Abraham Lincoln\'s reply to friends who chided him for delaying them by stopping to return a fallen fledgling to its nest
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\nI am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being - Abraham Lincoln\r\n

kind2creatures

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\nHis name is Furia (Fury) ~ A baby dolphin, with its umbilical cord still attached, was found beached in Uruguay. It is now being reared by the NGO, S.O.S Rescate Fauna Marina.
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\nA beached baby dolphin, found alive with its umbilical cord still attached, is being hand-reared in Uruguay. The male La Plata dolphin was found and was sent to the non-government wildlife rescue organisation S.O.S Rescate Fauna Marina. The Head of S.O.S Rescate Fauna Marina, Richard Tesore, has been photographed this week caring for the little mammal � bottle-feeding her and taking her from her small tank at the rescue centre for swims in the sea. It is not the first time Tesore has been pictured with a cute juvenile dolphin � pics of a dolphin rescued in similar circumstances being introduced to a rescued penguin made the news last year. The La Plata Dolphin or Franciscana (Pontoporia blainvillei) is found in coastal Atlantic waters of southeastern South America. It is a member of the river dolphin group and the only one that actually lives in the ocean and saltwater estuaries, rather than fresh water.
\nhttps://www.divinedolphin.com/\r\n

knightofalbion

\r\n \r\n War Horse: The play has been a smash hit in London\'s West End, it is on Broadway now also I believe and the Spielberg film of the same name is receiving rave reviews from the critics, but this is the story of the real War Horses...
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\nhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/co...came-back.html\r\n

knightofalbion

\r\n \r\n War Horses Part 2:
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\nWestern Front: Winston to the rescue
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\nhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ands-home.html
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\nTurkish Campaign: Betrayed and abandoned
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\nhttps://www.thebrooke.org/about-us/ou...es-1931-appeal\r\n

ozzie

\r\n \r\n The War Horse movie has just come to our cinema\'s, and we would like to see it.
\r\nIt makes me feel so sad that such beautiful creatures, as the horse had to go through such an horrendous thing as war, humans understand whats going on, but animals?
\r\nThank goodness for caring people like Dorothy Brooke\'s.\r\n

knightofalbion

\r\n \r\n BBC Super Smart animals! The BBC Natural History Department...need I say more?
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\nThe programme series begins this week, so look out for it on your television, or satellite/PPV.
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\nhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01by613
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\nThe chimp doing the computerised memory quiz is jaw-dropping!\r\n

knightofalbion

\r\n \r\n Canine Service:
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\nAmazing dog cares for disabled owner...
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\nhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...led-owner.html\r\n

ozzie

\r\n \r\n Thanks for Sharing knightofalbion.
\r\n Byron the Labrador is gorgeous, our Labrador Oscar is not quite as clever, his good points are that he says hello to us in the mornings, and is trying to teach his sister German Shepherd Abby to do the same, she opens her mouth but nothing comes out yet

and he is good at watching her play ball, and would just love any stangers that might like to come into the yard.

but all in all we just couldn\'t part with either of them.
\r\nthey are such wonderful company.\r\n

kind2creatures

\r\n \r\n Spiders escaping flooding in Pakistan...
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\nby Rebecca on February 16, 2012
\nin Animals in the News
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\nAn unexpected side-effect of the flooding in parts of Pakistan has been that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters.
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\nBecause of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water has taken so long to recede, many trees have become cocooned in spiders webs.
\nPeople in this part of Sindh have never seen this phenomenon before but they also report that there are now far fewer mosquitoes than they would expect, given the amount of stagnant, standing water that is around.
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\nIt is thought that the mosquitos are getting caught in the spiders web thus reducing the risk of malaria, which would be one blessing for the people of Sindh, facing so many other hardships after the floods.
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ozzie

\r\n \r\n kind2creatures, thats amazing, but I wouldnt like to walk into those webs at night.

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Completely agree ozzie!

You\'d hear me screaming miles away if I walked into one of those, looks like the sticking kind that\'s hard to get off you.

Good thing is, that they\'re snagging those mosquitos.

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kind2creatures

\r\n \r\n By Agence France-Presse
\nTiny primate �talks� in ultrasound
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\nOne of the world�s smallest primates, the Philippine tarsier, communicates
\nin a range of ultrasound inaudible to predator and prey alike, according to
\na study published on Wednesday.
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\nNo bigger than a man�s hand, Tarsius syrichta can hear and emit sounds at a
\nfrequency that effectively gives it a private channel for issuing warnings
\nor ferreting out crickets for a nighttime snack, the study found.
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\nOnly a handful of mammals are known to be able to send and receive vocal
\nsignals in the ultrasound range, above 20 kilohertz (kHz), including some
\nwhales, domestic cats and a few of the many species of bats.
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\nAnd few of these can squeal, screech or squawk at the same sonic altitudes
\nas the saucer-eyed tarsier, which up to now had been mistakenly described as
\nbeing �ordinarily silent,� researchers found.
\nIts finely-tuned ears are capable of picking up frequencies above 90 kHz,
\nand it can vocalise in a range around 70 kHz.
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\nBy comparison, humans generally can�t hear anything above 20 kHz, and a dog
\nwhistle is pitched to between 22 and 23 kHz.
\nA team of scientists from the United States and the Philippines led by
\nMarissa Ramsier of Humboldt State University in California gathered their
\ninaudible results in two ways.
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\nFirst they captured six of the docile nocturnal creatures and placed them
\ninside custom-build sound chambers to test their sensitivity to high-pitched
\nsounds.
\nAfter the experiments, the rare and endangered animals were returned
\nunharmed to their natural habitat, on the Philippine island of Mindanao.
\nTo measure the frequency of the tarsier�s ultrasound chatter, the
\nresearchers recorded another 35 specimens in the wild.
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\n�The minimum frequency of the call � 67 kHz � is the highest value of any
\nterrestrial mammal, excluding bats and some rodents,� said the study,
\npublished in the British Royal Society�s Biology Letters.
\nWhat advantages do the tarsier�s high-end vocal acrobatics confer? There are
\nseveral, the researchers suggest.
\nOne is being able to sound a silent alarm.
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\n�Ultrasonic calls can be advantageous to both the signaller and receiver as
\nthey are potentially difficult for predators to detect and localise,� the
\nresearchers explain.
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\nThe tarsier�s exceptional hearing may also facilitate acoustic eavesdropping
\non noises emitted by prey, which range from crickets and cockroaches �
\ntheir staple diet � to the occasional moth, katydid or hatchling bird.
\nFinally, the study speculates, being able to communicate in ultrasonic
\nranges filters out all the low-frequency �noise� and hubbub of a tropical
\nenvironment.
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\nTarsier�s have five-digit hands that eerily resemble � in emaciated form �
\ntheir human counterparts.
\nLacking the typical �night vision� of other nocturnal creatures, they also
\nhave � in relation to their body size � the largest eyes of any primate on
\nEarth.
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ozzie

\r\n \r\n Aww what beautiful little creatures, and very interesting write up, thanks kind2creatures.\r\n

liverock

\r\n \r\n Film of 30 dolphins beached in shallow water, rescued and returned to the sea by ordinary people on the beach.
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\nhttps://www.wimp.com/dolphinssaved/\r\n

kind2creatures

\r\n \r\n By Rebecca on March 21, 2012
\nin Animal Pictures,Cute Animal Pictures,Unusual Friends
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\nRare white tiger triplets born last year at a safari park in Weihai,
\nnorthern China�s Shandong Province are now ready to be weaned. The triplets
\n- two of which are pure white and one of which has black stripes � were born
\non 26 November 2011. After they were born the park had to find a surrogate
\ndog mother to nurse them. She has done her job well and the healthy triplets
\nare doing so well that they�re now ready to move onto eating solids.
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knightofalbion

\r\n \r\n All life is one:
\nAlas, because of lack of spiritual development, there are millions of people on earth, who do not realise that the spirit which animates them is the same one that animates all creatures who share the planet with them. They do not see them as spirits with earthly bodies, just as they are
\n- Silver Birch\r\n

knightofalbion

\r\n \r\n Interview with Donald Watson:
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\nDonald was the first person to coin the word \'vegan\' and it was him who founded the Vegan Movement.
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\nHe talked the talk and he walked the walk - and he left a golden path behind him.
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\nBe inspired!
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\nhttps://www.foodsforlife.org.uk/peopl...ld-Watson.html\r\n

ozzie

\r\n \r\n Gorgeous picture of the tiger cubs and shepherd
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\r\nknightofalbion,I just read Donald Watson\'s article its very interesting thanks.\r\n

knightofalbion

\r\n \r\n You don\'t need to speak German to understand....
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\nPETA Deutschland video highlighting the bottom line of man\'s abuse of the Animal Kingdom
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\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY2umll87tI\r\n

knightofalbion

\r\n \r\n Please, don\'t take my son
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\nhttps://www.globalanimal.org/2012/04/...and-act/71867/
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\nThe maternal bond, the same in any language - or species.\r\n

knightofalbion

\r\n \r\n How many vegetarians are there in the world?
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\nhttps://www.raw-food-health.net/NumberOfVegetarians.html\r\n

knightofalbion

\r\n \r\n The horrors of vivisection: London shoppers left stunned and speechless...
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\nhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-shoppers.html\r\n

ozzie

\r\n \r\n That was very disturbing,even though I knew what happens with the animals, but to have it in your face like that makes you really stop and think.
\r\nI really hope it gets the message across to people, just what these poor animals endure.\r\n

knightofalbion

\r\n \r\n When it is our \'time\' to we pass over we will be greeted not only by our human loved ones, who have passed over, but also by our departed pets.
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\nThis article details people who have sensed the presence of their \'dead\' pets...
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\nhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...ch-owners.html
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\n(The \'Comments\' section makes for interesting reading as well.)
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\nKnight adds: As in the spirit world communication is through thought transference you will be able to \'talk\' with your pet!\r\n

knightofalbion

\r\n \r\n A man dies...
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\nMourners walk for miles to pay their last respects...
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\nThe strange thing is, nobody told them he was dead...
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\nEven stranger \'they\' were elephants...
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\nhttps://www.beliefnet.com/inspiration...Whisperer.aspx\r\n

Cookie

\r\n \r\n Oooh that just brought tears to my eyes~
\nElephants have always been my favorite animal so this really tugs at my heartstrings

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\nNever heard of Lawrence Anthony, what a remarkable man. Rest in peace.\r\n

knightofalbion

\r\n \r\n The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice we must avoid bringing torment into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies
\n- Albert Schweitzer\r\n

kind2creatures

\r\n \r\n Photo I took a couple of days ago of a buck after he was taking advantage of some fallen pears.

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knightofalbion · � #1 � 01-03-2012, 03:16 AM

This is a thread for animal lovers. Anything to do with animals - interesting news stories, articles, quotations, poems etc. post it here!

Kinship
by
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I am the voice of the voiceless;
Through me the dumb shall speak,
Till the deaf world's ear be made to hear
The wrongs of the wordless weak.

From street, from cage and from kennel,
From stable and zoo, the wail
Of my tortured kin proclaims the sin
Of the mighty against the frail.

Oh, shame on the mothers of mortals,
Who have not stooped to teach
Of the sorrow that lies in dear, dumb eyes,
The sorrow that has no speech.

The same force formed the sparrow
That fashioned man the king;
The God of the whole gave a spark of soul
To furred and to feathered thing.

And I am my brother's keeper,
And I will fight his fight,
And speak the word for beast and bird,
Till the world shall set things right.

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