Lofting
Americannoun
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A conservation manager for the Dorset-based Butterfly Conservation, Steven Lofting, said the new method "has the potential to change our understanding of their biology, distribution, abundance and ecology. It's really exciting."
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025
Lofting can hit many registers, but he saves the lyrical for the animals themselves, who experience life as fully as we do, though you’d never know it if you can’t understand them.
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2020
The animals are talking, the critics are howling, and Hugh Lofting is spinning in his grave, which can only mean one thing: There’s a new Dolittle in town!
From Slate • Jan. 19, 2020
This remarkable man could, Lofting explained to his children, talk with animals.
From Time • Jul. 22, 2015
One day for my weekend library book Mum brought me The Story of Doctor Doolittle, by Hugh Lofting.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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