Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Let us think of the more moral members of society as a moral elite, much as the generality of scientists form a scientific elite. I hope I do not need to stress that such a moral elite must not be confused with a social or intellectual elite. I eat eggs though they may come from battery hens.

Morals 40

Morals Whales Whaling Chickens 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

We’re all connected through email and listservs, and we all swap information and provide each other with moral support. But one in particular did not even involve contact with an animal. The story of smuggling an eagle to Canada is fiction, as it would be far too stressful even for a bird used to being around people. There are so many!

Wildlife Rehabilitation 272

Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 272

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2013

What better testament to Carl Akeley, the taxidermist who mounted that elephant and to whom the Hall of African Mammals is dedicated, than to say that he turned a vast, throbbing, stampeding, living animal into an edifice with a feeling so much like permanence that a pigeon could go to sleep there? Of course it’s not permanent.

Elephants 158

Elephants Mammals Buffalo Gorillas 158