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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

10,000 Birds

The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. Any buffalo bones from prior to that transition were obviously scavenged. So that was the first argument for a scavenging phase. Eland are pretty darn hard to hunt.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Donna Fernandes, president of the Buffalo Zoo, witnessed a wake for a female gorilla, Babs, who had died of cancer at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo. Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. They also modify tools for the situation at hand, a type of invention not seen in other animals.

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