We see what we want to see. “We view them through our own lenses,” says Buhl. “We can’t help it. But we need to treat them not as mini-humans in feathers, but as their own entity, intrinsically what they are, their own ‘nation’ on this planet,” she says—her words echoing the great naturalist Henry Beston on all wild animals: “They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.”
