April 2009
34 posts
How I Learned to Love Goat
NOT LAMB, NOT BEEF… Goat meat is a staple in many cuisines around the world but only recently has become a novelty at restaurants in Manhattan and elsewhere.
YOU never know where goat will take you. When I asked the smiley butcher at Jefferson Market, the grocery store near my apartment in the West Village, whether he had any goat meat, he told me: “No. I got a leg of lamb, though — I...
March 2009
61 posts
Dogs (not chimps) most like humans
Chimpanzees share many of our genes, but dogs have lived with us for so long and undergone so much domestication that they are now serving as a model for understanding human social behavior, according to a new paper.
Cooperation, attachment to people, understanding human verbal and non-verbal communications, and the ability to imitate are just a handful of the social behaviors we share with...
Amazing ads for WWF: Forests for Life
by Ogilvy & Mather, Bangkok.
Circus Elephants Parade Across Manhattan Tonight...
Some things are too crazy even for Penn Station. Apparently circus elephants qualify. Once again the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus is heading into town and since the elephants can’t go up train station escalators, they need to get off a stop early in Queens and walk through the Mid-Town Tunnel, and straight across Manhattan to Madison Square Garden.
Club Animals Human Petting Zoo
The petting zoo is coming to town tonight to all you city folk, so bring a quarter for some feed and reconnect with nature. Wonder behind the chicken wire and interact with the critters docile enough to touch and feed. But wait, these are not the sheep and goats you might remember from your childhood because Club Animals are your people friends, thoughtfully dressed in animal mascot heads and...
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Touch Pets Dogs: Hands-on video!
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Puppy and lion playing together!
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Chimp planned human attacks →
A Scientist who watched a rock-throwing chimpanzee gather an arsenal to use against zoo visitors said his research could prove primates prepare for the future in a similar way to humans.
