At the Atlanta Science Festival in March, Dr. Jaap de Roode discussed his book, “Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes & Other Animals Heal Themselves,” with interludes of Camille Saint-Saëns’ “The Carnival of Animals,” played on the piano by Emory’s William Ransom and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Julie Coucheron.
He told the audience that he starts his book by discussing the monarch butterfly.
“Has anyone read the “Very Hungry Caterpillar? That book’s got so many mistakes,” de Roode laughed.
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