User:RD/9k/How Forests Think (Q618)

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it is hard to speak of what it was, dense and difficult / forest dense and powerful [?] -> apparent purpose of the text: to take the indescribable awe of South American forests and make them describable
Jaguars understand a distinction between living minds and inanimate objects; this is to vaguely imply that predatory animals practice respect or empathy for thinking Subjects of other species -> within the first few sentences of the book, you can see the final conclusion being carefully smuggled in behind claims that look smaller but due to their rhetorical purpose are actually bigger claims than they appear to be.
Jaguars understand a distinction between living animals and dead animals -> most people probably wouldn't dispute this much.