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

Animals

Volume VI, Number 2 | spring 2013

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Preamble

Man and Beast

By Lewis H. Lapham

Michel de Montaigne once considered, “When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime for her more than she is to me?”

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The Experts, by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1837.

Our Orgiastic Future

By Jack Hitt

What do bonobos have in common with teenaged boys? As it turns out, quite a bit.

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Map

Working Relationships

Man and beast in collaboration.

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Miscellany

One out of every two million lobsters is blue. One out of every thirty million lobsters is yellow, the creature’s rarest coloration.

1855 | Borneo

Adopting an Orangutan

Alfred Russel Wallace adds a new member to the family.More

1902 | Sussex

When the World Was New

Rudyard Kipling tells how the rhinoceros got its folds.More

c. 1865 | Russia

Natural Selection

Willa Cather throws a bride to the wolves.More

Charts & Graphs

Animal Testing

In the lab with Fluffy.

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Oil painting portrair Michel de Montaigne in red robes and white collar

Photograph of British politician and journalist Henry Du Pré Labouchère.

Photograph of Japanese novelist Natsume Sōseki.

Photograph of English poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling.

Photograph of American novelist Willa Cather.

Painted portrait of English philosopher Jeremy Bentham.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

—Winston Churchill, 1945

Sculpture bust of Greek historian Herodotus.

Photograph of American biologist Lynn Margulis.

Herodotus & Lynn Margulis

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