### versus culture:

Western culture
* 'versus' culture.
* Most western cultures believe that man s challenge is to conquer and control nature.
* attributes a painful reality to love.
* believes in progress, but it fears knowledge and science at the same time.
* break down the raw experience of living to analyze it rationally and logically.
* considers love and compassion to be other-oriented.
* denigrates sexuality and relegates it to the margins of our lives.
* emphasis quantitative audio-visual as the working reality.
* emphasizes that our life and soul is ephemeral.
* expects that both men and women keep their genitals covered.
* has a way of seeing life as one monolithic existence.
* have inherently different characteristics.
* holds dominion over the entire universe now and into the foreseeable future.
* is an egocentric culture
  - blamed for being obsessed with the human body and a lean and lithe appearance
  - human culture
  - one of the few in which they are considered erotic
  - only one of the many cultures that have emerged in the history of mankind
  - said to have experienced a paradigmatic shift from modernism to postmodernism
  - today above all a culture of liberal democratic citizenship
* offers only two genders, man or woman.
* prides itself in citical thinking.
* teaches that snakes are deceptive and evil.
* tend to de-emphasize their mythic archetypes
  - view both menopause and sexuality in the ageing woman negatively
* thinks of biology as inalienable.
* worships time.
+ Modesty, Different standards for men and women: Culture :: Clothing
  * There are different standards of modesty for men and women. Western culture expects that both men and women keep their genitals covered. It also expects that women keep their breasts covered, most of the time. There may be exceptions for bathing, or breastfeeding.

### vertebrate | bird | raptor | hawk | falcon | kestrel:

American kestrel
* Most american kestrels feed on diets.
* Some american kestrels eat animals
  - domesticate animals
  - insects
* Some american kestrels eat small animals
* Some american kestrels feed on insects
  - large insects
* Some american kestrels have backs
  - different roles
* are found throughout Pennsylvania
  - most of North and South America
  - kept and trained by humans for the sport of falconry
  - monogamous
  - sexually mature by their first spring
  - small, swift, powerful birds of prey, with brilliant coloring
  - solitary birds throughout most of the year
  - the smallest falcons in North America
* can see in the ultraviolet light range.
* have brighter colored plumages than most other falcons
  - different diets seasonally
* nest in cavities
  - tree cavities
* pair bond and only mate with one individual.

Female kestrel
* Some female kestrels have different roles
* are slightly larger than male kestrels.
* tend to have slightly lower pitched and harsher voices than males.

Male kestrel
* are more colorful than females.
* have a rufous back and tail, and a pronounced black moustache.

### vertebrate | bird | waterfowl | duck | sea duck | eider:

Common eider
* Most common eiders winter in the Bering Sea and the Aleutian Islands.
* breed in Alaska from Kodiak Island to the North Slope.

### vertebrate | mammal | feline | cat | lynx | bobcat:

Male bobcat
* Most male bobcats have tails.
* are driven away after breeding, and the males seek other females
  - slightly larger and heavier than females
* play no part in raising the kittens.
* reach sexual maturity at the age of two years old and females at the age of one.
* tend to be larger than females.