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When ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in a near-death baby owl, they expected that, like other wild orphans they'd rescued, she'd be a temporary presence. But Alfie's feathers were not growing correctly, requiring prolonged care. And soon Carl and Patricia began to realise that the healing was…
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The through line of this book follows Safina’s efforts to raise an abandoned owlet, not as a pet but a wild owl. He succeeded.
His owl, Alfie, mated with a wild owl and raised three heathy owlet “grandchildren.” Interwoven into this story is Safina’s thinking about life on earth and the importance of human connection to the rest of life. He is sharply critical of Plato’s elevation of the realm of ideas over the material world and the Christian uptake of Plato. He finds himself more in sympathy with indigenous views.
He writes, “Some see a Universe dead and meaningless.…
From Davis' list on relationships between human and non-human animals.
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