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Letter: Letter

Published 28 July 2001

From G.F. Dalton

The question of animal consciousness was nicely put by a small boy of my
acquaintance who inquired, “Do birds know that birds are birds?”

Dun Laoghaire, Ireland

Issue no. 2301 published 28 July 2001

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