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

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A subject that Aelian returns to again and again is the still-contentious issue of the animal mind , and to what degree the creatures he describes can be accurately said to learn, reason, and have morals. In this, despite the dubious nature of some of the anecdotes, the work on the whole succeeds.

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