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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. Your argument is invalid. Binford is absolutely correct about his concerns and you would know that I agree with him if you’d only read my latest paper.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

A few years ago while I was watching elephants in the Samburu National Reserve in Northern Kenya with elephant researcher Iain Douglas-Hamilton, I noticed a teenaged female, Babyl, who walked very slowly and had difficulty taking each step. Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon.

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