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May 20, 2012

animal (lover) n.: zoophilist

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Typical of the zoophilist who favors life’s lower orders over humankind, Robinson Jeffers claimed he’d sooner kill a man than a hawk. (David Yezzi, review of My Dog Tulip, by J. R. Ackerley, New Criterion, 11/1/1999.)

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