Owls – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog Wed, 06 Dec 2017 04:04:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://i0.wp.com/gregladen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Greg_Ladens_Blog_Favicon_black_GLb.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Owls – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog 32 32 77525483 Owls Are Not Wise https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/11/13/owls-r-not-wise/ https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/11/13/owls-r-not-wise/#comments Mon, 13 Nov 2017 18:10:16 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=27830 Continue reading Owls Are Not Wise →]]> Owls Aren’t Wise & Bats Aren’t Blind: A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife by Warner Shedd, with illustratins by Trudy Nicholson, is a pretty good book on fallacies in nature, things people believe that are not true. I.e., that owls are wise or that bats are blind.

Did you know that porcupines throw quills at you when they are upset? If you did, then you knew something wrong and you better get this book.

I’m writing a major thing on fallacies, and I will be mining a few examples from this book.

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