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Tag Archives: pure animal

Townsend’s Chipmunk

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Ruth Hayes
Townsend's Chipmunk

Tamias townsendii studied by Ruth Hayes, April-May 2012 Introduction Townsend’s chipmunks live in our back yard.  So far we’ve observed two of them.  We believe they are a mated pair. They seem to have built a nest in a large … Continue reading →

Posted in Animalia, Chordata, Land, Mammalia, Neotamias, North America, Rodentia, Sciuridae, Wild | Tagged nest, pure animal

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Gestation
Noun. The carrying of young in the uterus: pregnancy. “The adult male stays with a tigress only during the rutting season, and incidentally perhaps, during the gestation period and briefly thereafter.” Boomgaard p21 Definition Source: merriam-webster.com
Ambivalence
Noun. Simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings toward an object, person, or action. -Merriam-Webster English Dictionary
Bestial Ambivalence
Noun. The schematic of how an animal is represented in an animated text. Accommodates the polar extremes of the irreconcilable differences between animals and the sociocultural assimilation of animals. Split into four categories: "Pure Animal," "Aspirational Human," "Critical Human," and "Humanimal." The term was coined by Paul Wells in "The Animated Bestiary," pg. 51