epub |eng | | Author:Irene Pepperberg

Not too long before we left Chicago, Alex gave me a terrible scare. In early September 1990, I returned from a short trip and found a message from a student ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-13 | Author:John Frederick Walker

“MOMBASA IS SLOWLY taking over the role of the world’s main ivory centre from London,” proclaimed the Mombasa Times in January of 1961. During 1960–61 virtually all East African ivory, ...

epub | | | Author:David Kirby

23 Tilly’s Willy One of John Jett’s biggest regrets in his life was that on that December day in 1995 when his best friend, Jeff, got fired from SeaWorld, he ...

epub |eng | 2014-02-23 | Author:G. A. Bradshaw

10 Speaking in Tongues As she approached his enclosure, her body stiffened and a cold sweat broke out. Massa would agitate and vocalize with his trunk swaying. It took every ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-22 | Author:Steiner, Gary; [Steiner, Gary]

CHAPTER FIVE Toward a Nonanthropocentric Cosmopolitanism HISTORICAL COSMOPOLITAN IDEALS The ideal of civil society that prevails today owes a direct debt to Enlightenment thinkers such as Kant, who sought to ...

epub |eng | | Author:John Robbins

Keeping Us Hooked In its battle to keep Americans consuming high levels of saturated fat and cholesterol, the dairy industry has many friends. McDonald’s donates a “Nutrition Action Pack” to ...

epub |eng | 2006-11-11 | Author:Cheeta [Cheeta, Me]

When I’m swinging upside down in my tire behind the Sanctuary, the contrails of the airplanes segmenting the little rectangle of blue visible above the climbproof wall appear to me ...

epub, azw, pdf |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Sonia Faruqi [Faruqi, Sonia]

Sofia went to an island called Sulawesi to snorkel and dive, and I returned to Bali to study animal farming. I went to a Hindu neighborhood in the north of ...

epub |eng | 2004-08-29 | Author:David Baron

The dogs circled among the rocks. Their baying grew louder and fainter, louder and fainter, as heard from below. Matt Miller climbed toward the sound, up the jagged slope. His ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Carl Safina [Safina, Carl]

But why did dogs start looking less like wolves and more like dogs? That happened on its own, too. Turns out—and no one could have predicted this, and no one ...

epub |eng | 2007-12-07 | Author:Donna J. Haraway [Haraway, Donna J.]

in the right spot, and had all my parts technically correct; Cayenne turned well and correctly too. Then, we just lost each other. Period. It was not a “technical” mistake ...

epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Peter Singer

We have now surveyed the main trends in animal raising in which traditional methods have been transformed into factory style animal production. Sadly, as far as the animals are concerned, ...

mobi |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Irene Pepperberg

Not too long before we left Chicago, Alex gave me a terrible scare. In early September 1990, I returned from a short trip and found a message from a student ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Michael Brandow [Brandow, Michael]

as is usual with a crowd, attracted, in anything, more interest than any other class. Those delicate little animals, whose health must be preserved in glass houses, were gazed at ...

epub |eng | | Author:James McWilliams

“DO NOT TEASE THE MICROBES” Because easy answers to chicken health problems remain elusive, many small-scale chicken owners resort to an arsenal of medications and chemicals to keep their birds ...