10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. It should surprise no one that someone brought horses, or goats, or chickens. But hedgehogs?

New Zealand 163

New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 163

Animal Person

AUGUST 19, 2009

For me, the focus on culture and tradition is basically an excuse for "anything goes" when it comes to animals. Are the kids cooking monkey, cat, dog, alligator or turtle? I wonder how much they learn about the animals other cultures eat. (In The students learn to debone a chicken and slice cheese. And what about cheese?

Cooking 100

Cooking Chickens Factory Monkeys 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

Wisdom is not charging people extra to see your reconstituted Jurassic Park style dinosaur zoo when all you’ve got is a barn full of chickens. Humans have always classified organisms in a variety of ways, depending on need. For example, “the Ungulata include hooved animals with multi-chambered stomachs, except the whales.”.

Monkeys 157

Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 157