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Voices In Time

2012 | New York City

On Patrol with the K-9 Unit

Burkhard Bilger explores the history of police dogs.More

Voices In Time

1784 | Passy

Dissenting Opinion

Benjamin Franklin praises the virtues of the turkey.More

Voices In Time

c. 1950 | Madagascar

Clothing the Dead

A poem of the Malagasy people.More

Voices In Time

344 BC | Macedonia

Dark Horse

Alexander the Great chooses his steed.More

Voices In Time

1855 | Borneo

Adopting an Orangutan

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

Voices In Time

1902 | Sussex

When the World Was New

Rudyard Kipling tells how the rhinoceros got its folds.More

Voices In Time

c. 1890 | San Joaquin Valley

Scavenger Hunt

Mary Austin and fifty-seven buzzards. More

Voices In Time

1859 | London

Theme and Variation

Charles Darwin on the law of the species. More

Voices In Time

1767 | Paris

Construction Site

Buffon marvels at the ingenuity of beavers.More

Voices In Time

c. 1880 | Crow Butte

Factory Farm

Luther Standing Bear recalls the taste of free-range livestock.More

Voices In Time

1813 | Kentucky

Watching the Devastation

John James Audubon on the plight of pigeons.More

Voices In Time

c. 1895 | British Columbia

Deer Hunter

On becoming one of the hunted.More

Voices In Time

c. 1871 | Paris

From Zoo to Table

Parisians eat a zoo during the Franco-Prussian War.More

Voices In Time

c. 1780 | London

Can They Suffer?

Is an animal man? More

Voices In Time

c. 1843 | Pacific Ocean

In the Mouth of a Whale

Herman Melville and the watery beast. More

Voices In Time

c. 1865 | Russia

Natural Selection

Willa Cather throws a bride to the wolves.More

Voices In Time

c. 470 BC | West Africa

Gorilla Warfare

Hanno encounters a formidable foe. More

Voices In Time

1892 | Yasnaya Polyana

Leo Tolstoy Is Not an Ostrich

“We cannot believe that if we do not look there will not be what we do not wish to see.”More

Voices In Time

1896 | Bombay

Bird of Birds

Mark Twain honors the Indian Crow.More

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