I wandered from one discipline to the next and eventually found myself a resident of the borderlands between those that make up critical animal studies, not unlike Lochner, whose essay I reflect on here.
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When we tell our own stories, we have a duty to self and perhaps a duty to our audience, when there is one. When we tell stories that are not our own, we also have a duty to that someone or someones, especially when they cannot or do not take part in the telling.
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Care to take a guess? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
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We read the story of their elephant family and the elephant lives the lead in a world that they share with other animals and the humans who come after them and sometimes murder them.
Groves is not only an authority on primate taxonomy, but also an advocate for their protection both in the wild and in captivity.
The hybridization of anthropology and ethology might actually give us some useful and important ways for thinking about animal cultures and subjectivity.
Imagine how unhelpful communication might be if we didn’t know who we were communicating with simply by hearing them
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