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Aelian’s On The Nature Of Animals: The Classics Can Be Fun!

10,000 Birds

Thus opens the first entry in On the Nature of Animals , written by Claudius Aelianus in the days of imperial Rome, now freshly translated by Gregory McNamee and presented in an attractive, modern-looking edition by Trinity University Press.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. So that New Zealand would end up with quite a few species of animal not originally found here is hardly surprising of itself. But hedgehogs? In many ways, that is exactly what happened. Greenfinches? What exactly was going on.