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Why I Love Wasps -- And Why You Should Too

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Written by: Seirian Sumner, UCL

Why I Love Wasps -- And Why You Should Too

Humanity has always had a rocky relationship with wasps. They are one of those insects that we love to hate. We value bees (which also sting) because they pollinate our crops and make honey

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Plant Flower Billboards In Your Garden To Help Bugs In Trouble

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Written by: Samantha Murray, University of Florida

Plant Flower Billboards In Your Garden To Help Bugs In Trouble

Insects are attracted to landscapes where flowering plants of the same species are grouped together and create big blocks of color, according to new research.

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How Plants Manage The Shift From Winter To Spring

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Written by: Richard B. Primack

How Plants Manage The Shift From Winter To Spring

If you’ve ever seen lilac bushes crushed by snowdrifts, then budding on a warm day just a few weeks later, you may wonder how plants tolerate such extremes.

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Learning The Art of Non-Violence and of Dog Training

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Written by: Paul Owens

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Nonviolent dog training allows you to create a partnership with your dog using gentle persuasion based in kindness, respect, and compassion. This gentle persuasion is what the nonviolent dog training is all about. In this method, you use gentleness with a flexible yet non-compromising attitude...

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When Dogs Bark, Are They Using Words To Communicate?

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Written by: Clive Wynne

When Dogs Bark, Are They Using Words To Communicate?

Does your dog bark a lot? Or is he one of those quiet pooches who barks only when things get really exciting? Most dogs bark at least a little.

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How To Tell If Your Dog Is A Genius

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Written by: Jan Hoole

How To Tell If Your Dog Is A Genius

Young children learn new words very fast. ?Can dogs do that too?? New research shows how exceptionally talented dogs can learn the names of objects after hearing them only four times.

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How Dogs In A Workplace Breed Less Stress and Better Decision-making

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Written by: Ellen Furlong

How Dogs In A Workplace Has Less Stress And Better Decision-making

Recent research suggests that dogs in the workplace can lead to increased worker engagement, lower employee turnover, greater work satisfaction and even enhanced employee cohesion and communication.

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The Mystery Of The Blue Flower: Nature's Rare Colour Owes Its Existence To Bee Vision

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Written by: Adrian Dyer

The Mystery Of The Blue Flower: Nature's Rare Colour Owes Its Existence To Bee Vision

At a dinner party, or in the schoolyard, the question of favourite colour frequently results in an answer of “blue”. Why is it that humans are so fond of blue? And why does it seem to be so rare in the world of plants and animals?

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Stickiness Is A Weapon Some Plants Use To Fend Off Hungry Insects

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Written by: Eric LoPresti

Stickiness Is A Weapon Some Plants Use To Fend Off Hungry Insects

A great many plants have evolved sticky leaves, stems and seeds, including some you likely know – such as petunias and tobacco.

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The Four Main Styles of Pet Communication

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Written by: Cyndi Dale

The Four Main Styles of Pet Communication

Our pets are constantly interacting on the subtle level, directing data at you while picking up messages from you. Most likely, you’ve been relatively unaware of exactly how much intuitive communicating is already occurring between you and your pet. Understanding...

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Animals Teach Us Spirituality and Heighten Our Capacity for Love and Joy

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Written by: Mary Lou Randour

Animals Teach Us Spirituality and Heighten Our Capacity To Love and To Experience Joy

That animals touch us in a deep, central place is not a modern-day phenomenon, but one that pervades the history of the human-animal relationship. We sense that we can benefit spiritually in our relationship with animals, and we are right. They offer us something fundamental: a direct and immediate sense of both the joy and wonder of creation.

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It's Not About the Horse: The Horse Is A Mirror

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Written by: Wyatt Webb

It's Not About the Horse: The Horse Is A Mirror

If you want to deal with your demons, it's appropriate to make a pit stop at a place as hot as hell -- Tucson, Arizona, in the summertime. It's 100-plus degrees right now -- with dark, ominous clouds erasing the Santa Catalina mountaintops in the distance...

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10 Tips For Avoiding Scams When Shopping Online

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Written by: H. Colleen Sinclair

10 Tips For Avoiding Scams When Shopping Online

The holiday season is already a booming time for online shopping. The COVID-19 pandemic increases the likelihood that when people shop this holiday season, they will choose online shopping over brick-and-mortar stores.

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How To Use Ventilation and Air Filtration to Prevent the Spread of Viruses Indoors

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Written by: Shelly Miller

How To Use Ventilation and Air Filtration to Prevent the Spread of Coronavirus Indoors

The vast majority of SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs indoors, most of it from the inhalation of airborne particles that contain the coronavirus. 

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Dogs Never Lie About Love and Happiness

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Written by: Jeffrey Masson, Ph.D.

Dogs Never Lie About Love and Happiness

Can anything be as joyous as a dog? Bounding ahead, crashing into the bushes while out on a walk, happy, happy, happy. Conversely, can anything be as disappointed as a dog when you say, "No, we are not going for a walk"? Pure joy, pure disappointment.

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The Role of Animals in Our Lives

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Written by: Diane Budd

The Role of Animals in Our Lives

Domestication, for an animal, means not being completely free to roam or to even eat as they please. Pets therefore align with their humans for only one of two reasons: either by their own choice or from a place of surrender. When they do, they have a powerful impact on our lives.

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Animal Perspectives on the Corona Virus

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Written by: Nancy Windheart

Animal Perspectives on the Corona Virus

In this post, I share a few of the communications and transmissions from some of the non-human wisdom teachers I’ve connected with about our global situation, and in particular, the crucible of the novel corona virus in our human experience.

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Awakening to the Miraculous Results of Energy Healing

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Written by: Niki J. Senior

Awakening to the Miraculous Results of Energy Healing

By the standards set by modern medicine, healing shouldn’t work. However, we know that it does. We don’t quite understand how or why, but when we witness the miraculous results of simply the laying-on of hands, of herbal remedies or of...

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Do Dogs Really See In Just Black And White?

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Written by: Nancy Dreschel

Do Dogs Really See In Just Black And White?

While most people see a full spectrum of colors from red to violet, dogs lack some of the light receptors in their eyes that allow human beings to see certain colors, particularly in the red and green range.

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Why Anxious People Tend To Really Love Their Cats

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Written by: Amy Quinton

Why Anxious People Tend To Really Love Their Cats

The more neurotic and anxious cat owners are, the more trust and affection they have for their cat, researchers say.

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When It’s Tough To Get Seeds, You Can Garden With Scraps

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Written by: NC State

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Some of the fruits and vegetables you buy have seeds in them. Can you plant those? It depends.

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