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Dogs Can Distinguish between Emotions in Human Faces

BERLIN (Reuters) — A peek inside dogs’ brains revealed man’s best friend can distinguish emotions in people’s faces, researchers at the University of Vienna have found, providing what they said was the first ever evidence of such an ability.

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A Sumatran villager lost ground to the sea. So he planted mangroves

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