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Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet – David Abram

Emergence Magazine Podcast

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The Myth of the Salmon

How salmon navigate across thousands of miles of ever-shifting and largely featureless ocean to make their way back to the very same coastal point from whence they set out years earlier remains an elemental mystery. Such a mythic view bound the sensory imagination of the Ainu to the ways of this wild creature, engendering an almost familial regard for its well-being. Unlike other butterflies, many monarchs undertake a long annual odyssey superficially similar to that of the cranes but with a key difference. The butterfly's cyclical migration unfolds only over the course of multiple generations.

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