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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Painting of cows resting in a landscape with two herdsmen at right.

One of Us

By John Jeremiah Sullivan

Can animals think or feel, experience joy or sadness? Can they know their own existence?

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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.

1767 | Paris

Construction Site

Buffon marvels at the ingenuity of beavers.More

c. 470 BC | West Africa

Gorilla Warfare

Hanno encounters a formidable foe. More

2012 | New York City

On Patrol with the K-9 Unit

Burkhard Bilger explores the history of police dogs.More

Charts & Graphs

Gone Missing

Gone Missing

Remembering the extinct.

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Photograph of Native American author N. Scott Momaday.

Photograph of American writer and naturalist Henry Beston.

Photograph of American biologist Edward O. Wilson.

Photograph of American literary critic George Steiner.

Black and white photograph of American novelist John Steinbeck.

Sculpture bust of legendary Greek fabulist Aesop.

Photograph of British humanist, naturalist, and critic Alfred Russel Wallace.

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

Black and white image of Greek biographer and writer Plutarch.

Henry David Thoreau

Plutarch & Henry David Thoreau

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