Animal Person
JUNE 2, 2009
Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science ," thankfully wasn't called Pepper, the stolen dog that changed American science," so that was an encouraging sign. I look forward, with a tad of trepidation, to the part about Pepper being a turning point in science. Pepper was a beloved family pet. Stay tuned.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2022
Others are being killed for use in traditional medicine. “Arrow-Marked Babblers move around in gangs of a dozen or so, like troops of monkeys or wild dogs, constantly chattering among themselves. This can lead to birds being poisoned. If that sounds stupid, that is because it is.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
E.g. I remember trying to enter my local scrubland once, just across the car park behind the last apartment building and there, awaiting me, was a territorial pack of stray dogs barking at an intruder – me. What I mostly look for in this book is how to understand those behaviours, how to interpret them. How did I know that?
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. Part II: Man Cuts Dog. Maybe on paper.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
People who study pigs say they are as intelligent as a 3-year-old child, smarter even than the dogs we share our homes with. Would anyone in this day and age dare to say that we cannot presume to know a dog’s mind, that a dog cannot tell us if it is happy or sad, frustrated, lonely or bored? JILLIAN PARRY FRY Baltimore, Feb.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2018
There’s always a chance that we could ingest something bad for us, something that might even kill us – a peril we face anytime we swallow anything, in fact. ” Long before the science and physiology of taste were formally understood, brewers knew to avoid jarring combinations of sour and bitter flavors that signal poisons to our brains.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2023
Eight years later, Christian Cooper birding Central Park became a very different kind of media image: the black man falsely accused by a white woman of threatening her life after asking her to leash her dog in the Ramble, an area where unleashed dogs are not allowed. It was the same day George Floyd was killed.
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