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  2. Being kind to strangers is good for you. Why it's healthy to ...

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    Feeling like your kindness is being taken advantage of, or doing too much for other people and neglecting your own needs, may “lead to burnout or resentment,” Rachel Marmor, a licensed mental ...

  3. Group living - Wikipedia

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    This is because many species of animals who spend a majority of their life alone, at some point in their life, will join a group or engage in social behavior. [7] Some examples of this happens during mating, parental care of their offspring, or even aggregations of conspecifics to an area to exploit resources of food or shelter. [2]

  4. Social grooming - Wikipedia

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    The wide working memory capacities and causal understanding capabilities of primates permit them to fashion and utilize tools far more extensively than other non-human animals. [44] Apart from physical and mental constraints, perhaps a reason allogrooming animals do not use tools is because a major purpose of social grooming is social bonding ...

  5. The Mental Health Benefits of Being a Cat Lover - AOL

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    And being needed by your cat can help you feel less alone and encourage you to push through a rough day. “We know that loneliness is a real physical and mental health risk factor, like smoking.

  6. Animal welfare - Wikipedia

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    It says: (1) maximize the total happiness of all living beings; (2) place stringent side constraints on what one may do to human beings. Human beings may not be used or sacrificed for the benefit of others; animals may be used or sacrificed for the benefit of other people or animals only if those benefits are greater than the loss inflicted. [116]

  7. 100 animal trivia questions that will make you think - AOL

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    What is another name for a gnu? Answer: Wildebeest. When traveling in groups, this animal is referred to as a “mob.” Answer: Kangaroo. Among all the venomous snakes, this reptile is the longest.

  8. Animal-assisted therapy - Wikipedia

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    Animal-assisted therapy is an alternative or complementary type of therapy that includes the use of animals in a treatment. [4] [5] It falls under the realm of animal-assisted intervention, which encompasses any intervention in the studio that includes an animal in a therapeutic context such as emotional support animals, service animals trained to assist with daily activities, and animal ...

  9. Lists of animals - Wikipedia

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    With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development. Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described —of which around 1 million are insects —but it has been estimated there are over 7 million ...