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

Our Orgiastic Future

Jack Hitt

How to Be a Stuffed Animal

Frances Stonor Saunders

One of Us

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Map

Working Relationships

Miscellany

Hold your horses.

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

Lewis and Clark go fossil hunting.

The demise of the crab-louse.

The first Siamese cat in the United States.

The Columbian Exchange.

The rarest lobsters.

Apps for Apes.

Deadliest cat.

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

Lab rats and literature.

Plato and Diogenes debate featherless bipeds.

Emerson hears about the great white whale.

“Rat and Mole Destroyer to Her Majesty.”

Spotting a mermaid.

Worth its weight in beaver.

Voices In Time

Natural Selection

c. 1865 | Russia

From Zoo to Table

c. 1871 | Paris

Gorilla Warfare

c. 470 BC | West Africa

Scavenger Hunt

c. 1890 | San Joaquin Valley

In the Mouth of a Whale

c. 1843 | Pacific Ocean

Watching the Devastation

1813 | Kentucky

Clothing the Dead

c. 1950 | Madagascar

Dissenting Opinion

1784 | Passy

Can They Suffer?

c. 1780 | London

Dark Horse

344 BC | Macedonia

Adopting an Orangutan

1855 | Borneo

Leo Tolstoy Is Not an Ostrich

1892 | Yasnaya Polyana

When the World Was New

1902 | Sussex

Construction Site

1767 | Paris

Factory Farm

c. 1880 | Crow Butte

Theme and Variation

1859 | London

On Patrol with the K-9 Unit

2012 | New York City

Bird of Birds

1896 | Bombay

Deer Hunter

c. 1895 | British Columbia

Charts and Graphs

Fit for Service

Beauty Pageant

Gone Missing

Flying Aces

J’accuse!

A Long Way from Home

Animal Testing

Terms of Venery

Trusty Steeds

Men’s Best Friends

Animal Labor

Special Collections

Contributors

Conversations

Plutarch & Henry David Thoreau

George Bidwell & Emmanuel Levinas

Herodotus & Lynn Margulis

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