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Highlights from a Cancelled Pelagic Trip in Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

Alas, our trip to the sea was not to be! Since our trip was meant to leave from Cabuya, we were in the right place for this fine year bird. The trip began with plans made by world birder Pirjo Lakso to see if we could do a repeat of the fantastic pelagic trip we did in April, earlier this year. Arctic Tern from Cemetery Island.

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Steve Best on The Left's Ignorance of Cognitive Ethology

Animal Person

With traits allegedly unique to humans running out, philosophers and scientists claimed that only humans have minds complex enough to allow a sense of self-consciousness or self-identity, but, alas, chimpanzees and other animals demonstrated significant degrees of self-consciousness too. Check out the rest and let me know what you think.