BOOKS: Minding Animals

November 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2002:

Minding Animals: Awareness,
Emotions, and Heart by Marc Bekoff
Oxford University Press (198 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016),
2002. 230 pages, hardcover. $27.50.

More than 30 years ago Marc Bekoff was the first researcher
to study coyotes in the wild for reasons other than to find more
efficient ways to kill them. His reports about coyote play were
instrumental in reversing the once wholly negative public image of
coyotes. Informed about the care that coyotes take to play fair with
each other, few people other than sheep ranchers could continue to
see them as mere killing machines.

BOOKS: The Octopus & the Orangutan

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2002:

The Octopus and the Orangutan:
More True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity
by Eugene Linden
Dutton (Dutton (375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014), NY 2002. 256
pages, hardcover. $23.95.

The Octopus and the Orangutan: More True Tales of Animal
Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity is, as the name implies, a
sequel to The Parrot’s Lament. The title also reflects Linden’s
continuum of animals demonstrating intelligence: from the lowly
octopus, a mollusk, to the animal Linden thinks is closest to
thinking like a human, the orangutan. Some stories from The
Parrot’s Lament are repeated, a few with additional details. Many
of the new stories seem more compelling and unique than those in the
first book. The next-to-last chapter makes the same points as the
final chapter of The Parrot’s Lament, with additional insights about
our typical focus on obtaining short-term benefits through the use of
our intelligence, and the resulting long-term repercussions for our
species’ continued existence.

BOOKS: The Cosmic Serpent

October 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2002:

The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge by Jeremy Narby
Translated from the original French by the author, with assistance
from Jon Christensen
Tarcher/Putnam (c/o Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson St., New York,
NY 10014), 1998. 257 pages, hardcover. $22.95.

The Cosmic Serpent is not a quick, easy read. It is
thought-provoking, and bound to bring to light surprising facts for
readers, no matter what their area of expertise. That does not mean
that the facts will convince most readers to agree with all the
conclusions painstakingly drawn by anthropologist Jeremy Narby. Any
book which begins as this one does, with a description of the
author’s hallucinogenic trip under the guidance of a shaman, is
bound to stir some controversy.

BOOKS: Wolves At Our Door

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2002:

Wolves At Our Door
by Jim & Jamie Dutcher , with James Manful
Pocket Books (c/o Simon & Schuster, 1230 Ave. of the Americas,
New York, NY 10020), 2002. 302 pages, hardcover. $26.00.

Emmy Award-winning documentary film maker Jim Dutcher began
writing Wolves At Our Door as an intended “behind-the-scenes look at
the making of a wildlife documentary,” also called Wolves at Our
Door, which he produced for the Discovery Channel. But just making
the documentary took much longer than was originally planned. The
Dutchers ended up spending six years on site, because making the
film itself, complicated as that was, turned out to be less
problematic than ethically placing the wolves that they raised in
captivity–albeit very spacious captivity–in order to do the filming.

BOOKS: The Pet Surplus

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2002:

The Pet Surplus:
What Every Dog and Cat Owner
Can Do to Help Reduce It
by Susan M. Seidman
Xlibris Corporation
(www.xlibris.com; 1-888-795-4274), 2001.
234 pages, paperback.

Written for average U.S. petkeepers, The Pet Surplus sums up
the basics about pet overpopulation and other preventable causes of
dog and cat killing by animal shelters. Susan Seidman emphasizes the
need for pet sterilization, adopting animals from shelters, and
correcting misbehavior that often leads to owner surrenders. She
also discusses finding pet-friendly housing, finding lost pets, and
how to return strays to their homes.

BOOKS: The New Wolves

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2002:

The New Wolves: the Return
of the Mexican Wolf to the
American Southwest by Rick Bass
The Lyons Press (123 W. 18th St., New York, NY 10011), 1998,
paperback 2001. 165 pages. $14.95 paperback.

The New Wolves, by Rick Bass, is a comparatively
uncomplicated narrative of the beginning phase of reintroducing the
extirpated Mexican gray wolf to New Mexico and Arizona. The
reintroduction took wolves raised for generations in captivity, and
reacclimated them to life in the wild.

BOOKS: The Ghosts of Tsavo, Ivory Markets, Wild Orphans, and Tarra

September 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2002:

The Ghosts of Tsavo
by Philip Caputo
Adventure Press (c/o National Geographic Society,
1145 17th St. NW, Washington, DC 20036), 2002. 275 pages,
hardcover. $27.00.

The South & South East Asian Ivory Markets
by Esmond Martin & Daniel Stiles
Save the Elephants (c/o Ambrose Appelbe, 7 New Square, Lincoln’s
Inn, London WC2A 3RA, U.K.)
88 pages, paperback. No listed price.

Wild Orphans
by Gerry Ellis
Welcome Books (588 Broadway, New York, NY 10012), 2002. 136
pages, illust., hardcover. $24.95.

Travels With Tarra
by Carol Buckley
Tilbury House Publishers (2 Mechanic Street #3, Gardiner, ME 04345), 2002.
40 pages, illustrated, hardcover. $16.95.

Save The Elephants ivory trade investigators Esmond Martin
and Daniel Stiles, circus elephant trainer turned sanctuarian Carol
Buckley, and Daphne Sheldrick, whose elephant orphanage in Nairobi
National Park, Kenya, is subject of photojournalist Gerry Ellis’
Wild Orphans, each grasp and have devoted much of their lives to
addressing different parts of the mystique of elephants–and the
dilemma of how best to save them from extinction and abuse.
Ellis recently joined them by forming the Foundation for
Global Biodiversity Education for Children, Globio for short.
Globio assists six animal orphanages on five continents, including
the Sheldrick orphanage.

BOOKS: The Story of Rats

July 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2002:

The Story of Rats: Their impact on us, and our impact on them
by S. Anthony Barnett
Allen & Unwin (c/o Independent Publishers Group, 814 North Franklin
St., Chicago, IL 60610), 2001. 216 pages, paperback. $14.95.

“Early in the Second World War,” explains the back cover of
The Story of Rats, “Tony Barnett was drafted into the sewers,
wharves, food stores, and other rat-infested environments offered
by a London bombed nightly by the Luftwaffe.”
Now emiritus professor of zoology at the Australian National
University, Barnett has studied how to kill rats ever since,
including for many years as more-or-less a Pied Piper hired to rid
India of rat problems. Bennett has also extensively studied the
domestication of rats for laboratory use.

BOOKS: The use of Animals in Laboratory Experiments

July 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2002:

The use of Animals in Laboratory Experiments
by The Revd. Hugh Broadbent
Anglican Society for the Welfare of Animals
(P.O. Box 7193, Hook, Hampshire RG27 8GT, U.K.), 2002.

Inquire for ordering details c/o <AngSocWelAnimals@aol.com>.
“We are a Christian organization who are trying to raise
awareness of animal welfare within the Church here in the United
Kingdom and also amongst other Christians,” Anglican Society for the
Welfare of Animals corresponding secretary Samantha Chandler wrote
to ANIMAL PEOPLE in the cover letter accompanying The use of Animals
in Laboratory Experiments.

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