Animals🐻
Saving the Endangered: Gerald Durrell's Conservation Odyssey
Gerald Durrell's essay "Vanishing Animals" is a thrilling journey through conservation, where he rescued endangered species by creating lush habitats and breeding programs, essentially giving animals 5-star treatment.
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10 Surprising Facts About Cats
Cats have been with people for 10,000 years: Archeologists recently found a neolithic burial site in Cyprus which had a domestic cat buried alongside human remains. This finding adds an additional 4,000 years to the previously oldest record of cats as pets in ancient Egypt.
What do Jains believe?
Jainism is an ancient religion whose philosophy is that the way to liberation, spiritual purity and enlightenment is through disciplined nonviolence to all living creatures.
Why Ancient Egypt worshipped cats
Introduction. In Ancient Egypt, cats were fed royal diets, adorned with jewels, and considered the vessel of Gods. Upon death, they were often mummified. Camille Paglia, an art critic and philosopher, explains why cats were dear to Egyptians in Sexual Personae (1991) 👇
10 Secrets revealed about rabbits
Why do rabbits have such long ears? It's not surprising that rabbits have excellent hearing thanks to their ear shape, but their ears are also essential for regulating their temperature. Since they can't sweat, they use their ears to radiate away any excess heat.
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Can Emotional Support Animals Change Your Mood?
Animal lovers know all too well the warm feelings attached to interacting with a pet. Their playful and loving nature is captivating, infectious and in the case of emotional support animals, can cheer you up immediately. Now, for the first time, we have research to confirm this.
Why fostering saves lives
‘Fostering dogs saves lives–both canine and human. The days of dog catchers and dingy pounds should be over. For many reasons, people should consider the more humane method, fostering.’
The oldest dispute of all time: Dogs or Cats?
Ernst Junger was a German philosopher who participated in both the world wars. He wrote on many serious themes but in this memo, we breakdown his lighthearted essay Dog and Cat. Junger digs into their differences, why cats and dogs accompany different types of people, and more👇
What Can We Learn From Cats?
Take a moment to look at the little things. We don't have to forgo our modern technologies to play with a crumples receipt in the same way Fluffy might, but taking a moment to look out the window, or appreciate a truly soft blanket, can make a difference in the long run.
Advantages and Disadvantages of being a Guardian Dog Owner
Speciesism and the Struggle with Sentience
Are you struggling to disconnect the bacon on your plate from the pig in the pen lately? Does learning about factory farmed eggs turn you off your omelette? Repulsed at the thought of an animal abattoir? You might be suddenly and keenly aware of speciesism.
Should I become a vegan?
Veganism is trending everywhere and the vegan lifestyle is being promoted on social media platforms. But it started long ago in 1944 when Donald Watson coined the term ‘Vegan’ to differentiate between vegetarians who ate dairy and eggs, and those who did not (i.e. vegans).