title: Wagging Tales: Every Animal Has a Tale
author:  Tim Link 
description: Animals never cease to amaze me! Whether it is their impressive strength, adaptability to new circumstances, social skills or their ability to communicatethey continue to re-define the term 'animal'. Perhaps what we don't know about animals will be the most incredible finding yet! Tim Link's accounts in Wagging Tales will make you start thinking]] -- Jack Hanna "Host, TV's "Into the Wild""
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  # The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### John Burroughs
  
  
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  * [I. THE WIT OF A DUCK](wduk_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [II. AN ASTONISHED PORCUPINE](wduk_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  * [III. HUMAN TRAITS IN THE ANIMALS](wduk_split_4.html#1_0_4)
  
  
  * [IV. THE DOWNY WOODPECKER](wduk_split_5.html#1_0_5)
  
  
  * [V. A BARN-DOOR OUTLOOK](wduk_split_6.html#1_0_6)
  
  
  * [VI. WILD LIFE IN WINTER](wduk_split_7.html#1_0_7)
  
  
  * [VII. BIRD LIFE IN WINTER](wduk_split_8.html#1_0_8)
  
  
  * [VIII. A BIRDS' FREE LUNCH](wduk_split_9.html#1_0_9)
  
  
  * [IX. BIRD-NESTING TIME](wduk_split_10.html#1_0_10)
  
  
  * [X. A BREATH OF APRIL](wduk_split_11.html#1_0_11)
  
  
  * [XI. THE WOODCOCK'S EVENING HYMN](wduk_split_12.html#1_0_12)
  
  
  * [XII. THE COMING OF SUMMER](wduk_split_13.html#1_0_13)
  
  
  
  
  
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