The Once and Future World by J.B. MacKinnon

Author:J.B. MacKinnon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780307362209
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Published: 2013-09-24T07:00:00+00:00

* Vegetarianism was in fashion in 1620s Netherlands, and one Snyders scholar has argued that this may have influenced the artist’s sympathetic portrayal of fish, which he often shows twisted in death throes or staring with accusing eyes.

* One theory for why some whales strand themselves is to avoid drowning. They are air-breathing mammals, and when sick, wounded or near death from old age, may beach themselves rather than die inhaling water.

* Porpoise was once a much-loved meat, to the extent that a writer in the Transcripts of the American Fisheries Society in 1885, having eaten broiled meat from a porpoise caught off Cape Hatteras, wondered why it had been forgotten. “The golden age of gastronomy was long ago, and in that time kings and other great persons looked upon porpoise as a delicacy of delicacies,” writes the correspondent.

* Small woolly mammoths still existed on Wrangel Island when the Egyptians were building their first pyramids, disappearing only about 4,000 years ago.

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