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Animal Qualities

Beauty with function

Work in pink.

Animals grouped here express a similar quality through their behavior in nature. Each species still has its own principle, lesson, meaning, and field-guide page.

2 species

Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) thumbnail image on AnimalDex

Painted Stork

Species principle: Graceful Labor

Work in pink.

Hard work can still move like a painted thing.

Painted Storks wade through shallow wetlands and use long bills partly open in water to detect and catch fish and other prey by touch.

Saddle-billed Stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis) thumbnail image on AnimalDex

Saddle-billed Stork

Species principle: Striking Work

Work with a colored bill.

Beauty does not weaken the work when both know their place.

Saddle-billed Storks are tall wetland birds with large colorful bills, long legs, and patient stalking behavior used to catch fish, frogs, and other aquatic prey.

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