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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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You can designate it thus; you can legally call it a Rhode Island Red chicken if you want, but no whooping crane on this planet is nonessential. Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. Nobody needs to eat them.

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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

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Bumpus’s study was carried out in the vicinity of Providence, Rhode Island (Bumpus was at Brown University). Now, there is a new study that has significant advantages of the Bumpus study, though the latter will still be useful in teaching about evolution because of its limitations and the questions it raises.

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