Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." Each year, 'food animals' suffer and die by the billions, but they do so one by one.

Animal 100

Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Donna Fernandes, president of the Buffalo Zoo, witnessed a wake for a female gorilla, Babs, who had died of cancer at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo. In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry.

Emotional 100

Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

.’s Birds of New Guinea notes that the species is often seen moving in “high-flying flocks,” and Coates and Bishop’s Bird of Wallacea declares, “this species has suffered greatly from human predation and is now generally scarce to very rare.” The Ones Who Didn’t Make It.

Solomon Islands 272

Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 272