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Sentient: a book review

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The subtitle of Jackie Higgins’ book Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses , aptly sets forth her thesis – though the “wonder” it refers to could equally well be used to describe animal (not just human) senses, as she shows in fascinating detail.

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Is there an animal like this?

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they are haunted by other animals, or are in trouble due to humans, maybe humans hunt them or use them for experiments, maybe now there's few in wild or most have been domesticated, anything like that. But can also be brave/fight response, like cat when hiss or scratching and biting. they can climb, dig and swim.

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“The Wise Hours” — a review

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In the human psyche, owls can be cuddly signs of good luck and benificence (as they are in Japan, and Harry Potter movies) and, at the same time, eerie and unsettling. Either way, they are perhaps more central to our stories and lore than other birds, a familiar example, as Darlington reminds us, being Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

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A Birder’s Guide to The Wilderness Act

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And it prohibits human infrastructure, e.g. , roads, buildings, dams, and pipelines, etc. For example, hunting is not permitted in most NPS wilderness areas, but it is often allowed in wilderness areas managed by the other agencies.

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Leaping Foxes

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In German, if you are a rodent and you are smaller than – say – a human hand, you’re a mouse. The Common Buzzards , for example, who usually hunt by circling high above the landscape, will hover in kestrel fashion much more frequently. You’re not a vole or a gerbil. No “gophers” etc.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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Developed in the post-frontier era, the NAMWC helped put a stop to wanton wildlife destruction in an era where many species were being hunted and trapped ruthlessly to the brink of extinction. George Wuerthner, an ecologist and former hunting guide with a degree in wildlife biology, takes the debate a step further.

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After the recent Gorilla vs Grizzly thread I think this is needed: Gorilla myth busting

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Jungle leopards are in general larger than their savanna cousins, but they are nevertheless just about the same size as a human. Local pygmies say that leopards hunt gorillas and adult male gorilla remains are found in leopard scat The toe of an 11 year old male gorilla is found in leopard scat. kgs, it's still telling.