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

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

Lab rats and literature.

Emerson hears about the great white whale.

“Rat and Mole Destroyer to Her Majesty.”

Deadliest cat.

Hold your horses.

The demise of the crab-louse.

Worth its weight in beaver.

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

Apps for Apes.

Plato and Diogenes debate featherless bipeds.

The Columbian Exchange.

Lewis and Clark go fossil hunting.

Spotting a mermaid.

The rarest lobsters.

The first Siamese cat in the United States.

Voices In Time

Factory Farm

c. 1880 | Crow Butte

In the Mouth of a Whale

c. 1843 | Pacific Ocean

Clothing the Dead

c. 1950 | Madagascar

Adopting an Orangutan

1855 | Borneo

Scavenger Hunt

c. 1890 | San Joaquin Valley

Bird of Birds

1896 | Bombay

Leo Tolstoy Is Not an Ostrich

1892 | Yasnaya Polyana

Dissenting Opinion

1784 | Passy

Watching the Devastation

1813 | Kentucky

On Patrol with the K-9 Unit

2012 | New York City

Can They Suffer?

c. 1780 | London

Gorilla Warfare

c. 470 BC | West Africa

From Zoo to Table

c. 1871 | Paris

Deer Hunter

c. 1895 | British Columbia

When the World Was New

1902 | Sussex

Construction Site

1767 | Paris

Dark Horse

344 BC | Macedonia

Theme and Variation

1859 | London

Natural Selection

c. 1865 | Russia

Charts and Graphs

Special Collections

Fit for Service

Terms of Venery

Animal Testing

A Long Way from Home

Animal Labor

Flying Aces

Men’s Best Friends

Trusty Steeds

Beauty Pageant

J’accuse!

Gone Missing

Contributors

Conversations

Plutarch & Henry David Thoreau

Herodotus & Lynn Margulis

George Bidwell & Emmanuel Levinas

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