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- animals
- Her Majesty’s Rat-Catcher Jack Black, the most famous rat-catcher in Victorian London, killed up to 8,000 rats in a year.
- Military Mammals 2013: A rare nineteenth century torpedo was discovered off the coast of Southern California this week—by a very elite squad...
- The Most Talented Dogs in England In 1895, a British weekly publishes the breathless letters of its dog-obsessed subscribers
- The Complete Syllabus: Animals A list of books used in our Summer issue, “Animals”.
- Charles Mingus Toilet-Trains Your Cat In 1952, jazz musician Charles Mingus developed a successful technique to toilet train his cat.
- Consider the Poodle Underneath the poodle’s fluffy coat is a hardworking water dog with a history of bravery, intelligence, and battlefield know-how.
- Pet Cemetery In animals, humans look for clues about what the spirit world might hold.
- LQ Podcast 38: Alison Pill Listen to actress and Newsroom star Alison Pill read poetry and prose from our most recent issue, Animals.
- A Dog’s World 2013: Dognition, a new scientific startup helmed by a Duke University researcher, aims to collect data for dog cognition...
- Dam! 2013: A fisherman in Belarus died this week after being repeatedly bitten on the thigh by a beaver. Once hunted...
- Monkey Business Animals have long been used for physical labor—but what does it mean to do a job, and not truly comprehend it?
- LQ Podcast 37: Emily Anthes Developments in biotechnology are letting us drive cockroaches, control rodent minds, and chart the sea’s impenetrables depths, all chronicled in Emily Anthes’ new book, Frankenstein’s Cat.
- Working Relationships The interconnected lives of whales, bees, pigeons, horses, and rats.
- Man and Beast by Lewis Lapham
- Trusty Steeds Horse and master
- Terms of Venery A flock of sheep, an exaltation of larks
- Special Collections Zoos, menageries, and aviaries
- Best of Friends Famous kings, politicians, and artists and their pets
- J’Accuse! Animals on Trial
- Gone Missing Marked for extinction
