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Life Everlasting
The Animal Way of Death

By Heinrich, Bernd

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ISBN: 0547752660 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co (T) Published: Jun 19 2012 Pages: 236 Weight: 0.80lbs. Height: 8.50" Width: 5.75" Depth: 1.00" Language: English

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When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his “green burial” at Bernd Heinrich's hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist/author to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him. How exactly does the animal world deal with the flip sid...

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When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his “green burial” at Bernd Heinrich's hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist/author to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him. How exactly does the animal world deal with the flip side of the life cycle? And what are the lessons, ecological to spiritual, raised by a close look at how the animal world renews itself? Heinrich focuses his wholly original gaze on the fascinating doings of creatures most of us would otherwise turn away from—field mouse burials conducted by carrion beetles; the communication strategies ravens, “the premier northern undertakers,” use to do their work; and the “inadvertent teamwork” among wolves and large cats, foxes and weasels, bald eagles and nuthatches in cold-weather dispersal of killed prey. Heinrich reveals, too, how and where humans still play our ancient and important role as scavengers, thereby turning—not dust to dust—but life to life.