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The dog continue’s to prove that they are man’s best friend in the fashion typical of the dog. Scientists are styudying the genome of the dog […]

That line between “human” and “other animal” keeps getting thinnerThe Social Lives of Baboons: How Baboons Think (Yes, Think) By NICHOLAS WADE Reading a baboon’s mind […]

Scientists Spot Dog Fur Color Gene http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20071101/hl_hsn/scientistsspotdogfurcolorgene

What distinguishes us "higher animals" from "other animals" is here--but can we think of anything else?


The Rural Life: Two Pigs  By VERLYN KLINKENBORG
The questions people ask make it sound as though I should be morally outraged at myself, as if it’s impossible to scratch the pigs behind the ears and still intend to kill them.