Chickpeas are a legume packed with protein, vitamin B6, and magnesium to keep you energized and strong! They’re also one of the best legumes to replace animal-based products in your diet. Whether it be using chickpea flour to make egg-free omelets, chickpea salad to replace tuna salad (trust us!), or using them in tacos in place of crumbled meat, these little legumes really know how to do their time in the kitchen.
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Have you been itching to take up a new hobby? To finally learn how to use a pottery wheel or take that photography class at the local community college?
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More than 30 lions, dozens of monkeys, four raccoon-like coatis, and a very sick bear are among the animals breathing free this week after an animal rights group raided circuses in Peru to liberate them from squalid and abusive conditions.
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The planet’s entire population of Amargosa voles—as few as 50 or as many as 500; no one really knows—lives in isolated remnants of marshland fed by springs that bubble beneath this valley.
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The planet’s entire population of Amargosa voles—as few as 50 or as many as 500; no one really knows—lives in isolated remnants of marshland fed by springs that bubble beneath this valley.
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Animals are smarter than we thought.
This matters not just because it’s cool and fascinating. It matters because people use lack of intelligence as the reason to treat humans and non-human animals differently. It’s okay to eat animals and experiment on them, the rationale goes, because they are just dumb animals.
Science is biting itself in the butt on this one by continually discovering that animals aren’t so different from us after all, which will make it harder to justify experimenting on them.
These are some of the smartest animals in no particular order.
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When you visit Heart and Soul Animal Sanctuary you will arrive at what looks like a Disney movie set, The Giant Dog House. This is were the motley crew of all types of dogs reside. It’s also Natalie’s home. There among all the small, medium and large dog beds is a king sized bed where Natalie sleeps each night along with a variety of doggies who jump up to snuggle with her. Yes, it is a little slice of heaven!
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