Faux foe fought
a bozo of a baboon:
I once watched a Frans de Waal film, Chimpanzee Politics, at a primate conference, and I was sitting next to another baboonologist. There is a scene where some chimp had just pulled off a brilliant Machiavellian maneuver, and the guy next to me turned and said, "Christ, that is what a baboon would be like if it had a shred of discipline or gratification-postponement."
Close encounters of the furry kind, from a cruel writer skilled in applying tenterhooks. And an aside from the above piece:An Inuit maxim describes the wolf as "the knife that carves the caribou."
Smart animals
- Houdini sheep ("flocks have developed a new way of getting over road grids installed to stop them")
- New avian urbanism ("Home Depot...barn swallows...circle in front of the motion detector, the doors open, and the birds fly through and take lunch up to the kids")
- The border collie genius
- Pastures of the future - with evidence that cattle are smarter than students
Animal at your service
- Alternative medical providers - the doctor fish of Kangal. Especially the last couple of sentences.
Animals of questionable taste
- The Drake; likewise this squirrel
- Something you probably didn't see on TV as a child
- Why be vegetarian?
- speaking of increased rat consumption in Cambodia (weren't we?), vicariously fine (long) post on adventurous eating - ...It sort of looked like a big cube of prosciutto, maybe studded with pistachios? But that can't be right, because they don't have pistachios in Vietnam....
Impostor animal
- Unique and beautiful lawn ornament for the wealthy
Animal in the name
- The Crocodile Song - good for kids without learning disabilities.
Speaking of names (babies are animals, aren't they?)
- Baby's Named a Bad, Bad Thing - A Primer on Parent Cruelty
- More options if your baby is Japanese - Let's call him "Corpse"!
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