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On Teaching Children

Animal Person

Are the kids cooking monkey, cat, dog, alligator or turtle? The students learn to debone a chicken and slice cheese. I wonder how much the students learn about the chicken and where the carcass came from and what happens during the life of a chicken. Removing skin and bones from a chicken breast was "slimy and gushy and.

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Come@Me: If Birds are Dinosaurs I’m a Monkey’s Uncle

10,000 Birds

Wisdom is not charging people extra to see your reconstituted Jurassic Park style dinosaur zoo when all you’ve got is a barn full of chickens. In other words, you can’t say something like, “humans, gorillas, chimps, and bonobos are all in the same family and equally related to each other.” Monkey is a common, not scientific, term.

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Panama Trip Report: April 2017

10,000 Birds

Can a family-focused trip—even to one of the world’s most biodiverse countries—deliver enough opportunities for avian observation to satisfy this serious world birder? With enough planning, you can enjoy a family-friendly, bird-rich vacation in the Panama Canal zone. If you have kids, you’re probably as curious as I was.

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