In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.

With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.

We may never find a way to live in suburbia with deer as we do with raccoons, say, or squirrels. So for this reason, it's very important that we make sure always to save enough wild or open land so that they can live in their normal manner.

Barring some competition from whales, wolves are probably America's most popular wild animal. Wolves are also contenders for America's most unpopular wild animal, with perhaps some competition from coyotes.

Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others.

People didn't think animals thought or remembered or had minds! They most certainly do: any pet owner knows more than a lot of scientists about animals.