…We have decided to go back to the dolphin work, examine it very carefully, and do some entirely new work with the dolphins. Dolphins are very exciting to work with. They are playful, curious, and develop very close attachments for humans. They are infinitely patient with us. In all of our work with the dolphins no one was badly injured over a thirteen-year period. …Their discipline with humans in the […]
Craig Childs | Raven
When the first raven came it was alone, a piece of blackness laboring across a cold dawn sky. I too was alone, walking on an early-winter morning in southeast Utah, crossing a hard desert basin studded with towers of eroded rock. Three companions of mine were somewhere within a several mile radius, but we had split up with the fading stars, not planning to find one another back at camp […]
Caught on video: Animals–aware and feeling!
Each of the two videos that follow reveal remarkable capabilities of animals–capabilities we have historically denied them. For that reason, they inspire sadness, as well as wonder. The elephant in Thailand who, as many viewers have commented, “Paints better than I do,” is reduced to performing “stupid human tricks” for his or her livelihood. The rats who delight in being tickled(!) nevertheless spend their lives the subject of laboratory experiments. […]
Antonietta Lilly | Invitation from a White Whale
For the past several years I have been exposed to vast amounts of information about whales and dolphins. A network of organizations, such as Save the Whales, Greenpeace, Dolphin Embassy, etc., has formed across the country. People everywhere are interested in what they sense are joyful beings, and they want to know more about them. They come to my husband, John Lilly, for advice and information because he was the […]
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