Anguish, by August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck, c. 1878. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Animals

Volume VI, Number 2 | spring 2013

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Man and Beast

Lewis H. Lapham

One of Us

John Jeremiah Sullivan

How to Be a Stuffed Animal

Frances Stonor Saunders

Our Orgiastic Future

Jack Hitt

Map

Working Relationships

Miscellany

The rarest lobsters.

Lab rats and literature.

The demise of the crab-louse.

Lewis and Clark go fossil hunting.

Plato and Diogenes debate featherless bipeds.

Deadliest cat.

Hold your horses.

Worth its weight in beaver.

The Columbian Exchange.

“Rat and Mole Destroyer to Her Majesty.”

Apps for Apes.

The first Siamese cat in the United States.

Emerson hears about the great white whale.

“My music is best understood by animals and children.”

“Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”

Spotting a mermaid.

Voices In Time

Construction Site

1767 | Paris

Gorilla Warfare

c. 470 BC | West Africa

Theme and Variation

1859 | London

Leo Tolstoy Is Not an Ostrich

1892 | Yasnaya Polyana

In the Mouth of a Whale

c. 1843 | Pacific Ocean

Can They Suffer?

c. 1780 | London

Deer Hunter

c. 1895 | British Columbia

When the World Was New

1902 | Sussex

From Zoo to Table

c. 1871 | Paris

Adopting an Orangutan

1855 | Borneo

On Patrol with the K-9 Unit

2012 | New York City

Dark Horse

344 BC | Macedonia

Watching the Devastation

1813 | Kentucky

Scavenger Hunt

c. 1890 | San Joaquin Valley

Clothing the Dead

c. 1950 | Madagascar

Factory Farm

c. 1880 | Crow Butte

Natural Selection

c. 1865 | Russia

Dissenting Opinion

1784 | Passy

Bird of Birds

1896 | Bombay

Charts and Graphs

Gone Missing

Animal Labor

Fit for Service

A Long Way from Home

Trusty Steeds

Flying Aces

Men’s Best Friends

Terms of Venery

Beauty Pageant

Special Collections

J’accuse!

Animal Testing

Contributors

Conversations

Plutarch & Henry David Thoreau

Herodotus & Lynn Margulis

George Bidwell & Emmanuel Levinas

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