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

One of Us

John Jeremiah Sullivan

How to Be a Stuffed Animal

Frances Stonor Saunders

Map

Working Relationships

Miscellany

“Rat and Mole Destroyer to Her Majesty.”

Lab rats and literature.

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

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

Worth its weight in beaver.

The demise of the crab-louse.

The rarest lobsters.

Apps for Apes.

Plato and Diogenes debate featherless bipeds.

Hold your horses.

Spotting a mermaid.

Emerson hears about the great white whale.

Deadliest cat.

The Columbian Exchange.

The first Siamese cat in the United States.

Lewis and Clark go fossil hunting.

Voices In Time

In the Mouth of a Whale

c. 1843 | Pacific Ocean

Natural Selection

c. 1865 | Russia

Adopting an Orangutan

1855 | Borneo

Can They Suffer?

c. 1780 | London

Deer Hunter

c. 1895 | British Columbia

Factory Farm

c. 1880 | Crow Butte

Dark Horse

344 BC | Macedonia

Bird of Birds

1896 | Bombay

From Zoo to Table

c. 1871 | Paris

Watching the Devastation

1813 | Kentucky

When the World Was New

1902 | Sussex

Construction Site

1767 | Paris

Leo Tolstoy Is Not an Ostrich

1892 | Yasnaya Polyana

Scavenger Hunt

c. 1890 | San Joaquin Valley

Clothing the Dead

c. 1950 | Madagascar

Dissenting Opinion

1784 | Passy

On Patrol with the K-9 Unit

2012 | New York City

Gorilla Warfare

c. 470 BC | West Africa

Theme and Variation

1859 | London

Charts and Graphs

Animal Labor

Beauty Pageant

Animal Testing

Trusty Steeds

Fit for Service

Terms of Venery

Special Collections

Flying Aces

A Long Way from Home

J’accuse!

Men’s Best Friends

Gone Missing

Contributors

Conversations

Plutarch & Henry David Thoreau

Herodotus & Lynn Margulis

George Bidwell & Emmanuel Levinas

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DÉjÀ Vu

Love Is Dead

2018:

Woman announces she is divorcing her pirate ghost husband.

1926:

Man sues wife for adultery with a ghost.

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