Animal Person
MARCH 18, 2009
The New York Times presents us, this morning, with "Equine Alternative" regarding the recent discovery that horses decided to allow themselves be domesticated by humans for our mutual benefit, earlier than we had thought (3500 BC, and we preciously thought it was more like 2500 BC). The Botai did not just herd horses for meat.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2017
For nearly a hundred years, after the eggers, meat-hunters, plume-hunters, and a human-influenced gull population boom, puffins were absent from the island. Hordes of these delightful black-and-white beauties were present and I did not get tired of photographing them. Also impossible to ignore was the sheer number of Black Guillemots.
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Animal Person
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. It would be far better than doing nothing at all.
Animal Person
JUNE 13, 2009
You get the idea at YouTube but the experience is vastly different on a great television. The cinematography did present a bit of a problem for me in that I often had difficulties with scale--I didn't know how wide or large things were, and though it might not necessary to know, I like to nonetheless.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter. It’s not just that he has reduced the birds to their basic shapes, he presents them in visually delightful compositions. White article on bird feeding stations.
Animal Person
MARCH 29, 2009
There is no philosophical continuum, but there is a psychological continuum, as evidenced by everyone at the workshop taking steps back or forward, denoting their increase in animal use (including no meat to meat, or backsliding, like I did a decade ago), or their decrease (such as when vegetarians go vegan). What do you think?
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