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Reading about incantatory repetition, I found myself thinking, ‘It cannot be so. It cannot be so. No, it cannot be so.’ William, dead, seemed impossible. I must have thought he could live forever. I thought he might live on in his 9 children, and when the last one disappeared, I…

Bumblebees. Got to love them. They’re little fuzzy critters that live on pollen and generally don’t sting. You pretty much have to really make them mad. They’re actually kind of cute. But it turns out that their relationship with plants is more complex than we thought. Bumblebees as Pollinators Bumblebees are a pollinator…

Excerpt From The Upcoming Book, Musings Of A 21st Century Homo sapien “First, be a good animal.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson What makes a “good” animal? The descriptive “good” is highly subjective, so let’s start with successful. First, be a successful animal. But how to define successful? That’s personal and…

By Joanna Fitzgerald | Director of the von Arx Wildlife Hospital A common ground dove was among the 101 animals admitted to the von Arx Wildlife Hospital at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida this past week. The common ground dove was injured after being attacked by an outdoor cat. When…