… whether animal or human. Carel gets philosophical with a young animal rights activist over predatory biophilia: “In essence, Tim and his hunter target audience are both motivated by the same animal drive: an innate love and fascination with other animals, that thing that Edward O. Wilson called biophilia, a trait that’s strongest in the …
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Wimp World
Chas sent me this article from MacLeans that documents once more what a culture of fearful wimps we are becoming. “Ute Navidi, who heads a British children’s charity called London Play, was walking along a Berlin street, on a break from an international conference, when she stopped to watch a group of primary schoolchildren in …
.. and a “New” Bird
Also from Walter: a beautiful little new bird species from northeastern India, a hard place to get to. (I’d love to). Its name is Liocichla bugunorum, and it looks VERY different from the only other Liocichla in southern Asia (anywhere, I believe), which is found further east and is mostly dark brown.
“New” Wolf
Walter Hingley sent me a story by Philip Lee from the Ottawa Citizen (no link) with fascinating implications: it seems that the big, deer- eating canid of eastern Canada and New England is not a hybrid, as has been routinely claimed, but a third species of “wolf”, counting the coyote (or fourth– it may or …
Back to the Truck
As Plummer is nine years old, my working title for this picture is “Three Middle-aged Guys Headed Back to the Truck.”
Tazi Disposition
It’s obvious from this picture of Connie bonding with the girls that tazis are vicious brutes prone to terrorizing small children and unfit for human companionship.
First Time Out
Hanging out at this blog, I have obviously been reading about and seeing pictures of tazis forever. Finally in Magdalena I got to see and interact with these fascinating dogs and see them in action. We’ve all been looking at pictures of the puppies, so it was a thrill to be able to go out …
Up on Mt. Baldy
While visiting in Magdalena, Steve took us on a drive up to Mt. Baldy in the Cibola National Forest south of town. There we were treated to an amazingly spectacular view of the area to the west. I took some views with my film camera, and if any of them do justice when I get …
Reid’s Back
I have not been blogging the last couple of weeks as Connie and I were on vacation from September 3 until yesterday. We were on a driving tour of Arizona and New Mexico that included a visit with Steve and Libby in Magdalena. We saw lots on the trip that I will post on, but …
“Civil Unrest” Among the Ants
OK: Who here has ever pitted insects against each other in a jar? Even once? Or fed an ant lion? Surely… No show of hands, please; you know who you are. Offering some proof to the suspicion that biologists are just highly-educated versions of the same people they were in grade school, here’s a story …