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I Remember Elephants

10,000 Birds

I say they were butchered, face-off. Steven had no binoculars, but impressively sharp eyes and great knowledge of birds. One may say so. Mopane trees can grow up to 18 m / 60 ft and interlock their canopies.

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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

10,000 Birds

They could also give bones to a lion (lions are easy to come by), and they could simulate an early human ancestor butchering an animal with stone tools (we Africanists normally do this at parties). Many birds have no sense of smell, many vultures do (helps to find dead things). So, we want to build lots of them.

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