We fill the woods with invasive primates camouflaged to look like piles of leaves who sneak around, sprinkling estrus doe urine and manipulating gadgets that sound like antlers clashing.
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The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.
I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
Mammals are very close to us, but bugs are strange. They're more mysterious and exotic.
Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.
Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.
The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped across dense, humped back muscle. A broad head lifted and I could see the dish-shaped muzzle was catching my scent. I knew bears. This was a grizzly.
Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.
The rainforest has an intense beauty that at times seems almost suffocating. The jungle is one twig short of impenetrable, and the greenery seems to crowd in on you with a sensation that has been described as akin to snow blindness.
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