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The Elephant in the Courtroom
Perhaps because names are so crucial and personal, naming things can feel uniquely human. And until a little over a decade ago, scientists predominantly thought that was true. Then, in 2013, a study suggested that bottlenose dolphins use namelike calls. Scientists have since found evidence that parrots, and perhaps whales and bats, use calls that i... See more
Tove Danovich • Elephants Are Doing Something Deeply Human
Ultimately, it’s not about granting animals personhood, but about acknowledging and valuing their animalhood – and their planthood, their subjecthood, their beinghood.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? (Posthumanities Book 38)
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Sherman Eager, an officer in the Lost Battalion, who decades after the war brought his children to see Cher Ami at the Smithsonian and told them, “You all owe your lives to that pigeon.” Whatever the facts may be, the story of the self-sacrificing winged savior proved irresistible.[8]