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Required Reading for Explorers: Rachel Levin's Look Big and Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds

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Rachel Levin’s first book, Look Big and Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds offers an interesting take on our North American friends from the wild side.

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Rabies is not the way to go (part 6)

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Not so long ago the treatment for rabies consisted of twenty or more painful shots into the abdomen delivered by a needle the size of a fencepost. This treatment is now obsolete, as I have (thankfully) discovered.

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Rabies is not the way to go (part 3)

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Rabies is not the way to go (part 3)

I rinsed with water from a hose. The clear imprint of teeth on my thigh would have made a dentist proud. But the wounds were also deep so they took a while to stop bleeding. Red streaks mixed with the water and dribbled down my leg and forearms.