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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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As an independent illustrator, he regularly contributed art to Ford Times , a “lifestyle” magazine published by the Ford Motor Company. ” The Labrador Duck “is memorialized by forty-four stuffed specimens in museums and by countless antique featherbeds.”

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A scaredy cat is always a scaredy cat

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Exploratory species, on the other hand, have lifestyles where information gathering could be useful, e.g. those living in relatively complex and changeable versus constant habitats. Hat-tip to Stella. Instead, those species that are neophobic tend to have either a naturally. sort of “bland&# diet (e.g. Makes sense really.

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