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in our time we think we know most animals of the world from films and videos yet seeing an echidna come out of the underbrush about to cross the road but then looking at all the cameras deciding to quietly go back home for a while watching a young humpback whale launch her tons out of the sea in the sheer joy of breaching falling back in a white splash that sends your boat rocking feeling the hard back of a wombat under its thick coat of hair the soft fur of a koala the cool skin of a blue-tongued lizard feeding a wallaby whose sharp claws tenderly hold your hand so that the food does not go away too soon hearing the swelling maniacal laughter of a flock of kookaburras a pied butcherbird‘s unbelievably melodious call you become aware they are living beings not just images on the screen and the little hairs on the back of your neck rise in shock and awe of life‘s beauty

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