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I always enjoy Teddy Roosevelt stories and in fact have read a book where Sherlock Holmes and Teddy as New York Police Commissioner investigate a mystery together. I always think of him as the kind of fellow who filled a room with personality whether a camp tent or Madison Square Garden. I think this is interesting since enjoyment of the art of nature and the scientific detachment point of view are still important. I think one of early influences in biology was Konrad Lorenz's book the Nature of Bees and King Solomon's Ring discussing animal behavior. I do think watching raccoons on my front porch there are genetic influences, instinct influences, and individuals still show behaviors that are specific to that individual where for example one likes to stand on its hind legs and look at traffic on the road go by and does it night after night while the others let him be the scout and guard and don't care to bother to look. It is similar in horse herds where one mare watches and the young horses lie down to sleep only if feeling safe and the head mare is watching out for them. It is not easy to be the head mare in a horse herd. Now we know decades later a lot more about animal behavior and how complex it can be the more intelligent the animal. I think the greatest modern animal experts were folks that studied the primates sometimes at great personal cost. Nature fakers controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia