In this story, the author is making the point that humans and animals are far more similar in many ways than people tend to think, specifically when it comes to forming relationships.
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End of <span>the Civil War to 1900</span>
Rapid economic growth generated vast wealth during the Gilded Age.
New products and technologies improved middle-class quality of life.
Industrial workers and farmers didn't share in the new prosperity, working long hours in dangerous conditions for low pay.
Gilded Age politicians were largely corrupt and ineffective.
Most Americans during the Gilded Age wanted political and social reforms, but they disagreed strongly on what kind of reform.
The northern states began working to end slavery, but the southern states needed slaves because they thought their economy would suffer without them.
