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	<description>Reconnecting with animals, nature and the environment.</description>
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		<title>Happy to Help, but Please Ask First</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Mountain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chimps Plus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s more and more evidence that chimps have what scientists call a “theory of mind” – the ability to understand the minds of others. (It was once thought that only humans had this ability.)]]></description>
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		<title>Chimps Are Smart and Altruistic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Mountain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ayumu, who lives at Kyoto University in Japan, is back in the news for his ability to remember the location and order of a set of numbers in less time than it take you to blink – 30 milliseconds, to be precise. ]]></description>
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		<title>Humans Are, by Nature, Quite Nice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Mountain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chimps Plus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[primatologist Frans de Waal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yerkes National Primate Research Center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Until just 12 years ago, the common view among scientists was that humans were “nasty” at the core but had developed a thin veneer of morality. But human children — and most higher animals — are “moral” in a scientific sense, because they need to cooperate with each other to reproduce and pass on their genes, he said. ]]></description>
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		<title>Weather Extremes Now Clearly Due to Climate Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Mountain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Planet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hansen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While scientists have been leery of attributing specific droughts, heat waves and other weather events to climate change, you can now definitely draw the connection. The big Texas and Oklahoma droughts, for example, are indeed a direct result of climate change. ]]></description>
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		<title>Avon, Mary Kay and Est&#233;e Lauder Testing on Animals Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Mountain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Scoop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vivisection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animal testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Estee Lauder]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rabbits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[PETA is reporting that all three companies have been paying for tests on animals in order to satisfy the requirements of the Chinese government.]]></description>
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		<title>Monkey Studies to be Stopped at Univ. of Toronto</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Mountain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Erica Tennenhouse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Graduate students Erica Tennenhouse, right, and Amber Walker-Bolton were pleading for the last two monkeys in research at the Univ. of Toronto be retired to a sanctuary. ]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists &#8216;Cooking&#8217; on Laboratory Meat</title>
		<link>http://www.zoenature.org/2012/02/scientists-cooking-on-laboratory-meat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Mountain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Factory Farming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You care about animals but still can’t quit eating meat? Help is at hand, according to a panel of scientists at the annual AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) meeting in Vancouver.]]></description>
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		<title>Santorum: &quot;Radical Environmentalists Have It Upside Down&quot;</title>
		<link>http://www.zoenature.org/2012/02/santorum-radical-environmentalists-have-it-upside-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zoenature.org/2012/02/santorum-radical-environmentalists-have-it-upside-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Mountain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Planet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rick Santorum defended his earlier remarks that President Obama’s policies – specifically about the enormous changes that are taking place to the planet and our climate – are not “based on the Bible” but rather in “some phony theology.”]]></description>
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		<title>Big Step Forward for Rights of Dolphins and Whales</title>
		<link>http://www.zoenature.org/2012/02/big-step-forward-for-rights-of-dolphins-and-whales/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zoenature.org/2012/02/big-step-forward-for-rights-of-dolphins-and-whales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Mountain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dolphins & Whales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[news & views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Association for the Advancement of Science]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Lori Marino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personhood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the world’s largest science conference, scientists and ethicists presented the case for recognizing dolphins and whales as non-human persons.]]></description>
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		<title>The Week That Was: What a Long Strange Trip It&#8217;s Been</title>
		<link>http://www.zoenature.org/2012/02/the-week-that-was-what-a-long-strange-trip-its-been/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zoenature.org/2012/02/the-week-that-was-what-a-long-strange-trip-its-been/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zoe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HIGHLIGHTS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Planet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Central]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Grateful Dead would say, What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been. Or in our case, what a long, strange week it’s been.]]></description>
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