The scientific studies proving that animals are more like us than many thought keep on coming. The latest shows that a rat will go out of her way to free a caged stranger. If there is a pile of chocolate chips (which rats love) sitting nearby, a rat will rescue the caged rodent before eating the [...]
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Piper Hoffman
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- Non-Human Animals Can Act
Ethically: A Response to
Richard Polt
August 21, 2012 03:19PM - What Doesn't Separate Us From
Other Animals 6
August 07, 2012 09:20PM - NYC Renews Ban on New
Storefront Slaughterhouses
August 03, 2012 10:00AM - I'm on Fox TV Defending
Lawsuit Against Zoo
August 03, 2012 09:58AM - An Open Letter to the Women
Sitting Behind Me at "The
Avenge
August 03, 2012 09:56AM
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Jeremy.
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scared.”
April 30, 2012 01:03PM - “@I Love Life: the
government wouldn't allow Anna
Brown to
live in the same
house…”
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The
size of the U.S. population is
the whole world's
problem
becaus…”
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thoughtful
comment.
The trend in
science is towards disproving
the…”
February 24, 2012 10:09AM
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