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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

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Reading over my email from that period, I can’t believe I ended up there at all–I was working on a chaotic project at work, the economy was in crisis (well, the economy is always in crisis, but this was the summer of 2011, as in Black Monday crisis), and the tour itself was not confirmed till two months before the start date.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Sea lion mothers wail when watching their babies being eaten by killer whales. A Grateful Whale.

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

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Dale studied scarlet macaws, and worked in their conservation, for three years in southern Costa Rica, followed by a year in the Caribbean working on Whale Sharks. He also blogs for birdingblogs.com 19 Responses to “Polygynandry and the Alpine Accentor&# Corey Mar 15th, 2011 at 1:49 pm Nobody tell Daisy, OK? Oh… Sharon?

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A scaredy cat is always a scaredy cat

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Dale studied scarlet macaws, and worked in their conservation, for three years in southern Costa Rica, followed by a year in the Caribbean working on Whale Sharks. Corey Mar 1st, 2011 at 10:41 pm @David Craig: Fixed! So the human equivalent of frog in a bowl might be. So assaying exploratory tendency in humans.

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