A Chicken Slaughter, A Lesson in Force Protection

A Pentagon Journalist Learns a Hard Truth About Defense When a Fox Gets Into His Chicken Coop

The fox had been casing the joint for several minutes.

Afterward, a neighbor would report that she had seen the grayish-red beast lurking on the street as she went off to the gym at around 7:30 p.m. That would turn out to be the first sighting of the perpetrator of a daring urban raid.

The fox then moved two doors down, to the house where a white Labrador retriever normally patrols the yard. Sadly, disastrously, Buddy was on vacation, his premises unguarded. Two other neighboring dogs remained silent, unwilling to get involved …

by Julian E. Barnes | May 27, 2014

Why Marius the Giraffe Was Fed to the Lions

From Food to Sex, Europe’s Zoo Culture Is Nothing Like America’s

by Kathryn Bowers | February 13, 2014

A few years ago, I attended a biannual convention of zoo nutritionists in Oklahoma for the book I was writing. Hanging out one night at the hotel bar with a …

Stop It, Mayor de Blasio. You’re Scaring the Horses.

People Who Want To Ban New York’s Old-Fashioned Carriages Forget That Some Animals Work For a Living. And There’s Nothing Wrong With That.

by Diana C. Frank | January 27, 2014

I share at least one thing with the people who want to get rid of carriage horses in New York City: I love animals. (Except rats, and I still wouldn’t …

When Rabid Dogs Roamed the Streets of L.A.

Seventy-Five Years Ago, Rabies Was a Public Health Menace. Its Eradication Is a Public Health Triumph.

by Emily Beeler | November 22, 2013

In 1937 you could take a Red Car from Pomona all the way to Venice Beach. City Hall was the tallest building in L.A. The Los Angeles Bulldogs won every …

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by Arthur Vogelsang | October 25, 2013

In any house the prey has hair
And the hunter has hair and the prey and the hunter are one.
As in you, who are prey, and hunter, and me,

Angelenos, Meet Your Wildlife Neighbors

Understanding Our Natural World Can Make A Better Human Community, Too

by Jason G. Goldman | October 22, 2013

The first thing you notice when you step out of your car in the dusty parking lot is that your cell phone has no reception. The second thing you notice …

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