Considering how closely the lives of our ancestors were tied up with the lives of animals, the ancestors got some things shockingly wrong. Like, mice are born from a mixture of grain and dirty cloth. And a dog with a dry nose is sick. This subject arose, as it does a dozen times a day, [...]
“I’m sorry,” says your spouse/child/parent. And you think “BULLCRAP! Nothing about you sounds sorry!” You’re probably right. Humans have an unerring ear for tone, as the babies proved again this week. Babies are great research subjects. Smarter than guinea pigs and not as mean as chimps, their “gaze” tells all. They simply look at the [...]
Oh, the mortal coil. One of my mice has a squinty eye — some life-threatening infection? And the “hip saver” doc just told me he can’t save my hip. Life as an animal is a battle against the organic blob of minerals and proteins called “The Body.” That thing just has too [...]
