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Bald eagle · Week of August 3, 2026
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FriendshipFor thirty years, an old man has sunk to the seabed off Tateyama Bay, knocked twice on a piece of metal — and waited. Every single time, the same fish swims out of the blue to meet him.
RescueA cage was dragging behind her, roped to her tail. She didn't swim past the two men on the jet ski. She came to them — and held still while one of them cut her free.
GratitudeJoão Pereira de Souza cleaned the oil from a dying penguin's feathers by hand. Dindim has crossed an ocean to come back to him, year after year.
WonderA queen bumblebee born without wings had almost no chance. In Fiona Presly's hands she lived nearly five months — and changed how one woman saw every small creature.
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