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Let these pelicans be your therapy animals

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Andrew Kooman
Nov 04, 2022
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Before watching the movie Storm Boy, I’d never thought about training pelicans (apparently you can). But I had been thinking about human connection.

I’ve been studying some alarming stats. People aren’t meeting as much in traditional venues where community is created—places of worship, community centres, the gym, coffee shops. Certainly not as much as t…

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