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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How to Be a Stuffed Animal

By Frances Stonor Saunders

The American Museum of Natural History, Teddy Roosevelt, and the importance of taxidermy.

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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.

c. 1865 | Russia

Natural Selection

Willa Cather throws a bride to the wolves.More

c. 1895 | British Columbia

Deer Hunter

On becoming one of the hunted.More

c. 1950 | Madagascar

Clothing the Dead

A poem of the Malagasy people.More

Charts & Graphs

A Long Way from Home

Migration routes.

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Photograph of American animation director Chuck Jones.

Photograph of American writer and naturalist Henry Beston.

Photograph of Native American author N. Scott Momaday.

Photograph of English poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling.

Photograph of American forger George Bidwell.

Photograph of American writer and editor John Jeremiah Sullivan.

Photograph of English novelist and satirist T. H. White.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.

—Erich Fromm, 1947

Sculpture bust of Greek historian Herodotus.

Photograph of American biologist Lynn Margulis.

Herodotus & Lynn Margulis

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