A fascinating new work from an internationally renowned poet Anne Waldman's new investigative hybrid-poem explores the nuances of inter-species communication and compassion. It draws on animal lore,...

Pygmy animals are those animals, which are unusually small. Know about Pygmy Owl, Pygmy Goat, Pygmy Seahorse, and Pygmy Shrew.

Oxford-based artist Tach Pollard (previously) allows the sinuous shapes of hawthorn or oak branches to guide the forms of his fantastical figures. The lanky creatures stand on long limbs with hunched shoulders and bowed backs, features determined by the original curve of the wood. Based on legends like the Norse Eddas, The Mabinogion, and the Icelandic Sagas, the sculptures are mysterious and minimal—Pollard tends to leave the natural color and grain of the material intact for their faces and burns the remainder to obtain the deep, black char that envelops their figures. More

CHAINED to a wall and lying on a dirty mattress with a full face of make-up, Pony the orangutan waited for her next client. Men working in the nearby palm oil farm in Borneo would come into the bro…

Sometimes you need a lot of luck, various circumstances or both to see certain birds or animals. The Jerboa was one of these. After a very long day in Djoudj we were driving back to Fredericks house when i realised, after 15-20km, that i had left my scope and tripod under an acacia bush in the middle of the park. We turned around and retrieved it but then as we drove back home for the second time, Paul suddenly got the squirts and had to empty himself twice at the roadside. A few km's further down the track a golden rodent suddenly appeared in the dirt road and froze in the headlights - a bloody Jerboa. After slowly crawling up to it i ended up 6 inches from an animal that i can only describe as being like a miniature Kangaroo crossed with a Rabbit and several other rodents. Had i not left my scope in the park and Paul not got the Barry Whites we wouldn't have had an encounter with this extraordinary creature.

Back in the 1960s, a photograph, said to date from the late 1800s, appeared in the pages of a popular newsstand magazine of the day – possibly True, Saga, or Argosy – and displayed the deceased remains of a gigantic, monstrous bird, pinned to a pair of barn-doors somewhere in rural North America – the

Climbing to the most dangerous mountain spots, mountain goats show no sign of fear as they search for food.

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