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• Connie Hines, a star who let Mr. Ed do the talking (AP)

  
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  LOS ANGELES – He had the talking horse. Now all Alan Young had to do was find the right woman to play his wife on televisions "Mr. Ed." It was a task made simple, the veteran actor said Thursday, the moment he met a young actress named Connie Hines who had moved to Hollywood just two years ...
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• Spiders Decorate Webs with Ornaments

  
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  Although theyre probably eating their holiday guests, even spiders appear to getting into the Christmas spirit.
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• Merry Christmas!

  
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  Its Christmas Eve and in the spirit of the season, I present to you some of my favorite holiday-themed animal videos.  Theres always something odd about animals celebrating human holidays, but its also somehow heartwarming at the same time.  This isnt something you see every day.... The best part about this ...
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• Tis the season for gray whale-watching excursions

  
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  The annual south-bound migration of Pacific gray whales has begun. Each winter, more than 20,000 of the leviathans pass near the Southern California coast as they travel from the waters of Alaska to Baja California, where the females give birth to calves. Beginning Saturday and continuing through mid-April, daily ...
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• Happy holidays at Hi-Tor

  
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  The Hi-Tor animal shelter in Pomona in Rockland County, NY, held its first tree lighting ceremony to raise funds through the sale of special ornaments. This being a shelter, four-footers were invited to the party. You can see whole gallery of photos here thanks to LoHud photographer Vincent DiSalvio. But first, ...
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• Spike update

  
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  What a glorious way to spend a holiday week evening, with the ever adorable Spike! She’s a full-fledged kitten now, still tiny, but totally coming into her own. And frisky as all get out. She was a little bit unnerved because Gordon, one of the house cats where Spike is visiting this week, has been mean, mean, mean. ...
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• Do monkeys have grammar?

  
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  The short answer is "no." But a new study in PLOS One suggests that some monkey calls may be morphologically-complex. Here is the relevant passage: Some calls were given to a broad, others to a narrow range of events. Crucially, “krak” calls were exclusively given after detecting a leopard, suggesting that it ...
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• Happy holidays from Gomez

  
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  P&C friend and contributor Sally from the brother blog sends along these wishes from Gomez. Sally reports that she got her kitties, Gomez and Princess Dubinsky, a comfy new bed as a Hanukkah present, but the Princess obviously prefers the shoebox. Kitties! I, for one, was impressed that she got Gomez to pose for ...
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• Top dogs in pop culture

  
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  I know, just know you’ve been waiting all year for this, and here it is! The American Kennel Club and PawNation.com unveiled their list today of the Top 125 Dogs in Pop Culture. Can you guess who made number #1? I asked some folks in my office, and only one person got it right (OK, I only asked the two people ...
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• San Diego Zoo Animals Celebrate the Winter Holidays

  
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  Playing in the snow, opening presents, and eating tasty treats are activities enjoyed by non-human members of the animal kingdom too, based on photos recently sent to me by the San Diego Zoo. Meerkats literally jumped for joy when presented ...
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• Clever octopus, using tools.

  
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  No sooner do I get back from a restaurant in which I had a marvelous octopus ceviche, than I come across this video. 
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• The Best Bromance Ever

  
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  My best friend and I meet every morning to go for a walk in the woods.  It’s cold in Boston these days, well below freezing, but if you dress right, the crunching sound of frozen dirt and the smell of crispy maple leaves bring their own satisfaction. My buddy almost always notices things I miss; the stream, he ...
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• King VJ gets shy

  
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  A while back I introduced you to VJ, a massive Turkish Van who owns brother blog friend and P&C contributor Nasty 1. Well, it seems VJ is getting frustrated with all the fame his exposure has gotten him. As Nasty says, “The King VJ doesn’t like the papparazzi. No pics please ” Thanks Nasty, that is ...
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• Female Reindeers Pull Santas Sleigh

  
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  Jeanna Bryner at Live Science today points out some interesting facts about reindeer. (Reindeer at Atka Island; Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Mixing fact with fiction, she argues that all of the reindeer mentioned in stories about Santa Claus ...
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• Tool Using Octopus

  
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  We used to believe that humans were unique among life forms in our use of tools.  Then scientists observed tool use in chimpanzees and we lost our claim to the title of exclusive tool user on the planet.  Now we recognize a whole list of animals that use tools in some fashion, from sea otters that crack open ...
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• Happy Holidays!

  
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  I get tons and tons of e-mails this time of year about pet products, and gifts and all that kind of stuff. As P&C readers know, we don’t pitch products here (you don’t need me for that in interweb world and we have more fun and loftier goals, I hope Which is why I have to post this from P&C contributor ...
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• The Comic (?) Side of Evolution

  
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  You might not expect a scientists creativity to show up in the form of playfulness, at least not in his "serious" nonfiction books. Yet Richard Dawkinss humanity and sense of humor shine through nearly every page of The Greatest Show on Earth , which I found delightful. I had often read quibbles, including from ...
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• A snowy day

  
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  Hey P&C friends, if you’re lucky, you’re not part of the northeast storm. If you are part of it, here’s why it’s good to be Stanley. First, warm up on heater: Then cuddle up in basket.
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• Small Miracles and the Human-Canine Bond: The Case of Ben and Charlie

  
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        Today I learned about a small miracle which involved my father and a dog named Charlie. I am not a particularly religious person, although I do consider myself to spiritual in that I believe that there is a God. However, because I am a scientist I tend to be skeptical about miracles and such. Nonetheless, ...
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• Animals In the News: A brief summary of the fascinating lives of animals and peoples attitudes toward them

  
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  This will be my last post for 2009 and I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank my readers and those who have sent in comments to Psychology Today and to me personally. I thought that this would be a good time to tell you about some new happenings in my field and lay the groundwork for 2010. As usual animals ...
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