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Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet – David Abram

Emergence Magazine Podcast

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The Northernmost Generation of Monarchs

The northernmost generation of monarchs, those who emerge from their chrysalis stage in northeastern North America, launch each autumn on a mass southward migration. Those that survive the winter hibernation will rouse themselves in late February to mate and begin the long migration north. Unlike cranes and other migrating birds, these butterflies cannot possibly rely on the remembered landscape for navigation. The monarchs flapping their way south are the great-great-grandchildren of those who made the same journey last year.

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