This Week: What Animals Think and Feel

Do animals experience joy, grief, jealousy, anger, love? Or are those purely human emotions that we have super-imposed on animal behaviour? Well, in his controversial new book,Beyond Words, noted American biologist and science writer Carl Safina says it's obvious that wolves, elephants, whales and apes do share those emotions with us. And it's time to re-evaluate our relationship with the animal world, and look at the similarities between our sense of consciousness and self-awareness - and theirs.

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Water, water, everywhere - but maybe not for long. A new Canadian study says that the Athabasca River in Alberta. which supplies much of the water for the province's oilsands development, is susceptible to drought, and the industry use of the river may not be sustainable.

And - good news and bad news about climate change. Good news is that some creatures might actually benefit from global warming, Bad news? It's the dreaded mosquito. And that's really bad news for Arctic Caribou, whose young can actually die from a mosquito swarm..

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