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  ...who needs animals, who needs ducks...
  
  Would we really have such things as sky-scrapers if we did not have the knowledge we gained from mountaineering, could we continue to boast of 'our' ability to go everywhere, and exist anywhere on our planet, be it at high-altitude or the upper and lower limits of latitude, without the Eider?
  Would heavier-than-air machines have achieved flight if Leonardo had not so long studied birds in flight?
  
  Some time ago I heard on the radio the opinion that the British Empire would have failed to materialise were it not for the numberless flights of the Jay, with its habit of 'dropping' undigested acorns in flight and so spreading the growth of our historic forests of Oaks.

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