What Pets and Wild Animals Are Thinking - Animals and Emotions

Inside the Minds of Animals

By Eugene Linden
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the June 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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From playing practical jokes to manipulating currency to performing amazing acts of heroism, our planetmates are a funnier, shrewder, kindlier, more altruistic, and more empathetic bunch than most of us realize.

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