Photographer Tim Flach’s extraordinary portraits of animals
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Dutch Illustrator Rop Van Mierlo’s charming wash paintings of wild animals, made by dropping ink and watercolor onto paper to create softly explosive shapes with no hard edges or contours.
Keep + Bon Iver + baby animals = what’s not to love?
For four hundred years we’ve seen this constant widening of the circle of ethical concern: first black people become ‘people’ – and claimed the rights that are assigned to ‘people’ – then women, then the variously disabled, and the sexually ‘deviant’. It doesn’t seem at all unlikely to me that two hundred years from now – if we make it that far! – the current arrangement of relationships between animals and humans will be considered a kind of monstrosity.
Zadie Smith, on the heels of the recent Cambridge declaration of animal consciousness
Take an amazing tour of bat caves with bat biologist Nickolay Hristov, who is developing new techniques for filming and visualizing bats.
We already know that Thomas Edison was the grandaddy of cat viral videos, but did you know viral pet dress-up dates back to 1905?
Vintage chronophotography by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey.
Have had to shoot people but never anyone I knew and loved for eleven years. Nor anyone that purred with two broken legs.
“To put all living things that aren’t human into one category is, first of all, a stupid gesture – theoretically ridiculous – and partakes in the very real violence that humans exercise towards animals.”
Derrida on animals, from the 2000 documentary Derrida.
Also see what it means to be human.
It’s not an intellectual thing when a mother protects her child; it’s an instinctive behaviour. We value all those things in the human being because we are human beings! But that’s pretty short sighted and narrow minded and I think it’s down to what Jeremy Bentham said which is, “…the question is not can they reason? Or can they talk? …But can they suffer?”
PETA co-founder and president Ingrid Newkirk on humanity’s relationship with animals
The contents of an ostrich’s stomach, retrieved after it died in the London Zoo in 1942, including a lace handkerchief, a buttoned glove, a length of rope, a plain handkerchief (probably a man’s), assorted copper coins, metal tacks, staples and hooks, and a four-inch nail - a step too far, and the cause of death.
