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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. ” In the Footsteps of Audubon.

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Becoming Sensitized to Animals in Books

Critter News

Here is one example. 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). There were various brief descriptions of the poor animals of Haiti. 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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