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" In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs. "

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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" I don't mind aging - I'm glad to be aging. I'll never die young. "

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" People didn't think animals thought or remembered or had minds! They most certainly do: any pet owner knows more than a lot of scientists about animals. "

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" Veterinarians are essential allies to the millions of us who experience the human-animal bond. "

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" You have to be able to love members of your own species before you can branch out and apply that to other species. "

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" I always thought of deer as solitary animals that weren't very interesting. But my goodness, that was very wrong. The big eye-opener for me was that they're social. They have family groups. "

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" People acquire a dog, don't understand it, can't train it, get fed up, and... offer it for adoption, hoping to pass on the problem to somebody else. But nobody wants a problem dog. "

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" I would like to visit a dog's mind to know what he's thinking and feeling. "

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" All the members of the dog family - domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, dingoes - are very aware of territory. A group must control its own territory - you can't have others taking it from you, because then you won't have enough food. "

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" We used to go in the woods by ourselves, and you can't help noticing the world then, especially animals. People used to know a lot about the natural world, especially in the country. "

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" This was what you did in the '50s: You get married, get a job, put your husband through graduate school, and have two kids - a girl and a boy. "

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" From the very dawn of time until now and well into the future... human-animal companionship is at the very core of our instincts not only for mutual survival, but mutually rewarding relationships. "

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" As far as I'm concerned, I own my dogs as I own my body. My legs are with me when I take a shower, and I feel no shame. If I were to lose one, I'd grieve, and people would send sympathy cards, but it would be my condition that evoked the sympathy, not the fate of the leg. That's like losing a dog. "

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" When I write about animals, I use anthropological techniques and the language you would use for a person. You don't have to anthropomorphize animals, just acknowledge their individuality. "

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" Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone. "

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" Hundreds of species are facing extinction due to human impacts on the environment. "

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" Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others. "

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" Barring some competition from whales, wolves are probably America's most popular wild animal. Wolves are also contenders for America's most unpopular wild animal, with perhaps some competition from coyotes. "

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" We are surely the primary agent of death for all members of the cat tribe. For many if not most cat species, our depredations must surpass accidents, disease, and even starvation by a considerable margin. "

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" The story of cats is a story of meat. "

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" When we became sedentary, lived indoors, and started to raise livestock, we began to see wolves not as occasional fur-bearers or fellow hunters but as robbers. "

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" Every day, the humane societies execute thousands of dogs who tried all their lives to do their very best by their owners. These dogs are killed not because they are bad but because they are inconvenient. So as we need God more than he needs us, dogs need us more than we need them, and they know it. "

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" One of the best and most responsible things a scientist can do is to write for the popular press. "

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