Relations With Humans
The Red-billed Tropicbird is set to be featured on the currency of Bermuda, despite having a negligible presence there. The bird was selected over Bermuda's national bird, the endemic Bermuda Petrel, and the native White-tailed Tropicbird. The story was carried globally by the Associated Press.
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“The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“Because humans are not alone in exhibiting such behavior—bees stockpile royal jelly, birds feather their nests, mice shred paper—it’s possible that a pregnant woman who scrubs her house from floor to ceiling [just before her baby is born] is responding to a biological imperative . . . . Of course there are those who believe that . . . the burst of energy that propels a pregnant woman to clean her house is a perfectly natural response to their mother’s impending visit.”
—Mary Arrigo (20th century)