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A new book, "The Tortoise Tale", helps us recognize the interconnectedness of all life.

It is a memoir of a giant tortoise and a moving story about her expansive life and multispecies community.

It covers animal agency, ecofeminism, ecoanxiety, well-being, and captive animals.

Many people are blessed to share their living and recreational spaces with a wide variety of nonhuman animals (animals). Common and attractive animals often are the ones who attract our attention . However, other creatures, a wide variety of wild neighbors, also can gain our attention and serve to bring people together, especially when we pay attention to who they are and their inherent beauty. For these and other reasons, I found Dr. Kendra Coulter's new book, The Tortoise Tale, to be an eye-o

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