Some people enjoy running into an occasional primate or farm animal while shopping. Many others don’t.

Rory Stewart offers a kind tip:

Open land undefiled by sheep droppings has most likely been mined.

Nathan Myhrvold:

Some people are just not interested in natural history, I guess.

I suppose -- but for those who are, here's a tip from the archive:

New anthropological evidence suggests that snakes, as predators, may have figured prominently in the evolution of primate vision — the ability, shared by humans, apes and monkeys, to see the world in crisp, three-dimensional living color.

Also:

The squirrel kept running and finally stopped when it realized there was still nowhere to go.

From the archive:

California, a state that faces ongoing water quality issues, appears to be working diligently to curb any runoff into water sources.

Also:

Hubbub transports us to a world in which residents were scarred by smallpox, refuse rotted in the streets, pigs and dogs roamed free, and food hygiene consisted of little more than spit and polish.

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