.. and North Africa. Janet Jones, the archaeologist who was one of my companions on my Turkish Kurdistan trip in December, has been in Egypt, where she photographed these adobe dovecotes. The dovecotes are the “beehives” on the roofs. The birds I saw in Turkey, especially in and around the city of Urfa, fascinated me …
Author: Steve Bodio
Catchup
A roundup of bloggish news, brief but I hope interesting. “Wild Play”: Alpha Enviros don’t grow in front of computer screens. When John Craighead and Jane Goodall are on the same page, maybe we’d best listen. (John must be ninety now– we should all be that tough). Go to Matt’s blog for an important post …
Pack Pics
The one above shows the pack’s canine condo in the background.
Missing
We have been missing in action for a week– cooking, cooking, eating, eating, and (though I rather hate its use as a verb) “partying”. To quote from a letter I sent to the Alpha Enviro: “We have spent most of the week cooking for the two day end- of- the- season hunt and party of …
Hunted by Giant Hyenas?
Christy Turner, the eminent anthropologist who is famous (or infamous) for demonstrating conclusively that the Anasazi practiced cannibalism, has been working for years now in the Altai mountains of a bigger “Four Corners”, where Siberia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Xinjiang come together. He has been looking for the answer to a riddle: why did humans “hang …
Dog Stuff
Much good material up, some in response to my coursing screed, some not. Here, the Alpha Environmentalist registers his always pungent opinions on the coursing controversy– I particularly like “pooping pompoms”. A friend of Matt’s who breeds whippets adds via email: “The possible mindset of some of the greyhound adoption groups, those supporting passage of …
Coursing Redux
Yes, I AM beating you over the head with this. As (I think) Trotsky said of war, you may not be interested in the California coursing controversy, but if you are a hunter or a champion of or user of working animals, it is interested in you. An op- ed by one Eileen Mitchell in …
Banned in Britain
What will Britain ban next? Yes, I know there are some serious issues, but I still think it’s incremental frog- boiling– or has that metaphor been debunked? And– camels? They’re DOMESTIC.
Menu
It’s almost too easy to make fun of English language menus in foreign countries. From Ken Tynan in Bull Fever (“Anahogs in a Seamanlike Manner” in Spain in the fifties*) to, well, my own Eagle Dreams ( “fillet of beer” and “chicken FANTASY” in Ulaan Bataar in the nineties), these felicities have been one of …
Evidence..
.. that humans have not stopped evolving since “Out of Africa”, in this story by Nicholas Wade in the NYT. He is the best science reporter in the mainstream. But Sailer was on the paper weeks ago, which I missed.