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Democratic Operative's Cat Slaughtered, 'Liberal' Painted On Corpse

this is the saddest and most pathetic act ive ever seen.

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Super Frat: Happiness by Comparison

Steve and Dick are stuck at the frat house for the holiday break.

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Lucy Needs a Home for the Holidays | Life With Dogs

saddest thing ever

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Rep. Jan Schakowsky: House Republicans stole your Christmas

By Eric W. Dolan Tuesday, December 20, 2011 Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) blasted... more

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Sunflowers for 9/11 RIP

Here are some sunflowers images I made for the victims of 9/11... more

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SAD- Incursion By:Christopher Stephen Cluney

An incursion that grasps these emotions of mine,it shakes me til I’m... more

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Police Under Fire For Selling "U Raise 'Em, We Cage 'Em' T-Shirt Picturing Child Behind Bars

T-shirts sold by the Twin Rivers Police Officers Association have this message:... more

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downtown los angeles protest 2011 against the corporations

Here is a short glimps what happened at the protest in dowtown los angeles. End all... more

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Group Of German Lab Chimps See Sunlight For The First Time (VIDEO)

WARNING: You will get teary-eyed. They freaking hugged! It's good news all... more

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Pennie And Steve Lefkowitz Charged With Animal Cruelty After Nearly 700 Cats Seized

the video made me cry

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The Daily Blender: Charlie and Spike The Fainting Goat Kittens - Original (VIDEO)

Charlie and Spike were two kittens with Myotonia Congenita, otherwise known as... more

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Bitta slams Punjab Cong, SAD over Bhullar issue

Apparently pained at politics over the execution of death row convict Devinder Pal... more

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Successful Alcoholics: A Sadly Tragic View of Titular Boozers

“Successful Alcoholics” is a funny, yet very dark short film from director... more

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Scientists Cure Cancer and Nobody Takes Notice

No profit in a cure I guess. Bastards.

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Sajak Untuk Ida

It was a poetry for my past.

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Expectations from the Budget

Previous articles in this column had addressed the possible expectations from Budget... more

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Woman Hires Man To Rape Her Daughter So She Can Become A Grandma

No this isn’t an Onion article, although we wish it were. A 53 year old woman... more

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Haunting Footage Reveals How Chimps Mourn Death

Chimpanzees share over 90 percent of their DNA with humans -- but the similarities between these two species seems to extend beyond genetics alone. For what is believed to be the very first time, researchers have captured the behavior of a female chimp mourning over her recently deceased 16-month-old child, detailing how non-human primates respond to death. This moving footage not only challenges those who might question the extent to which animals experience the loss of a life, it bridges the perceived differences between the natural world and we humans who are harbingers of so much death therein.

This haunting footage above was captured by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics showing a chimpanzee mother's behavior towards her dead infant. A team led by Dr. Katherine Cronin sought to study the little-understood reaction of non-human primates encountering the realities of mortality.

"The videos are extremely valuable, because they force one to stop and think about what might be happening in the minds of other primates," Dr. Cronin told CORDIS News. "Whether a viewer ultimately decides that the chimpanzee is mourning, or simply curious about the corpse, is not nearly as important as people taking a moment to consider the possibilities."

Dr. Cronin and doctoral student Edwin Van Leeuwen monitored the behaviour of a female chimpanzee that had recently lost her 16-month-old infant. The mother carried the infant's dead body for more than 24 hours, and then laid it on the ground in a glade. She approached the body many times, and held her fingers against the infant's face and neck for several seconds. The mother then stayed close to the body for almost an hour, later carrying it over to a group of chimpanzees that began to examine the body. The mother no longer carried the body of the infant the next day.
It is worthy of noting that the chimpanzees seen in the video are no stranger to hardship. The animals reside in Zimbabwe's Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage Trust -- a reserve which protects primates born in the wild but that have been rescued from the illegal wildlife trade.

Watching such stirring scenes, the sense of sadness and loss within the seem palpable -- and it's no wonder why. Beyond the limitations of our complex languages and constructs of emotion experience -- and all the factors that invented to distinguish us from the natural world from which we were born -- there's really more that we have retained than abandoned.

I suspect that the possible revelation of such similarities between humans and their primate cousins would otherwise be unremarkable if its implications weren't so significant. Our perceptions of a vast difference between the emotion experience of human and animals has afforded us the opportunity to presume dominion over them, limiting to what extent will offer our sympathies and protection. Without such a systemic prejudice in place, we'd suddenly be culpable for a host of injustices, the likes of which vastly overshadow any in the history of human civilization.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/01/haunting-footage-reveals-how-chimps-mourn-death.phpChimpanzees share over 90 percent of their DNA with humans -- but the similarities... more

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In High School and Alone in a Homeless Shelter

Using the accepted social metrics of teenagers in this country, Thakane Masondo should... more

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Tunisia Crisis

A Short Compilation on the Crisis in Tunisia. Violent anti-government protests... more

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