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

10,000 Birds

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. When it is caught, it pisses all over itself, so that the fur is unfit to use, even though it could be put to many good applications.&#

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Birding Inner Mongolia

10,000 Birds

A bit reminiscent of the fable of the hare and hedgehog, with me as the hare (I guess) due to my use of planes etc., In other words, a hedgehog should always take care that his wife is also a hedgehog, and so forth.” Always nice, for some reason. but without the bitter taste of losing a race.

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