Alma/Introduction

"Experience working in a state of euphoria and warmth, in just a jumble of light" @erowidrecruiter

"The whole is something other than the sum of its parts" - Kurt Koffka

"To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts, and to do the science of geographical ecology is to search for patterns of plant and animal life that can be put on a map" - The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

"All life is bound together by mutual support and interdependence." - Jain declaration of Nature, Laxmi Mall Singhvi

Alma Hunter is a visiting behavioral ecologist from the Cognition and culture in New Caledonian crows research group. Due to life's exigencies she has a grant to study the corvid population in Detroit. Her magery is all mixed in with the exigencies and her field of study.