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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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.

1896 | Bombay

Bird of Birds

Mark Twain honors the Indian Crow.More

1855 | Borneo

Adopting an Orangutan

Alfred Russel Wallace adds a new member to the family.More

1892 | Yasnaya Polyana

Leo Tolstoy Is Not an Ostrich

“We cannot believe that if we do not look there will not be what we do not wish to see.”More

Charts & Graphs

Beauty Pageant

Prizewinning four-legged creatures.

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Painting of Benjamin Franklin reading a batch of papers next to a classical bust.

Photograph of American environmentalist Aldo Leopold.

Painted portrait of French poet Jean de la Fontaine.

Black and white photograph of Irish poet and writer W. B. Yeats.

Image of Chinese poet Bai Juyi.

Photograph of Danish writer Isak Dinesen.

Photograph of East German writer Inge Müller.

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

An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.

—Erasmus, 1511

Black and white image of Greek biographer and writer Plutarch.

Henry David Thoreau

Plutarch & Henry David Thoreau

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