Q. I notice you sometimes include scientific names of animals in your columns. One time you identified a timber rattlesnake; another time, two turtles (an Alabama redbelly turtle and a stinkpot).

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You can add marmoset monkeys to the list of species that use “names.” But whether animals have anything more to say remains unknown. Do animals have names? According to the poet T.S. Eliot, cats have ...

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In most cases, MassWildlife says you should leave any baby animals you see in the wild alone. In most cases, even if a young animal seems helpless and abandoned, they are not. MassWildlife says in the ...

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