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Audubon’s Footsteps

10,000 Birds

Denis Clavreul, artist, biologist, and Frenchman, got it into his head to follow the same paths blazed, in the first part of the nineteenth century, by John James Audubon, also an artist and also a Frenchman (born in Haiti) — though not much of a biologist or naturalist. Logan, reviewed previously on this site by Carrie.).

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Becoming Sensitized to Animals in Books

Critter News

Over the years, I've noticed that the role of animals jumps out at me in any book I read. It's a book by Tracy Kidder about Dr. Paul Farmer, an international health advocate who made his name from his work in Haiti and his fight against Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR). The cockfights that are so popular in Haiti.

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Unlikely Healer Walks on Three Paws

4 The Love Of Animals

Rather, he was a handy cat, one who could escape from all cages; one who could rouse his humans from a deep sleep as he played with anything and everything they dared to leave on the kitchen counter; one who could even, despite all odds, teach dog-only hearts to open up and love the newest member of their family. I’m Here too!”

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We Interrupt Regularly Scheduled.

Animal Person

In writing my new book Hoodwinked (Random House, Nov 2009 publication date), I recently visited Central America. Haiti and Honduras have always set the bottom line for minimum wages. The school is best known for producing Latin American officers who have committed major human rights abuses, including military coups. (5)

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