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

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Despite the last group, this is not merely a collection of just-so stories. But the book is never heavy, because accounts of the filial piety of lions and monogamy of crows are mixed with items like “The Hedgehog is a spiteful creature.

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You’re Not Helping

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Even wiping out one species, like possums, or stoats, or hedgehogs is probably beyond current methods. He isn’t arguing that the state should impose this, he’s arguing that we should act collectively. We are certainly many years away from being able to undertake a feat of that magnitude on one of the two main islands.

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My Year in Birding 2012

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A rundown of my year is below, broken down into the integral parts which, collectively, allowed me to see what I saw. It was awesome – especially the hedgehog and the amazing new Swarovski spotting scopes I got to play with. Northern White-breasted Hedgehog. But how did I see so many species this year?

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