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Forget ‘Affiliative Bonds.’ Animals Have Friends Just Like We Do
In “Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond,” Lydia Denworth explores the growing, cross-species science of friendships — how they work and why.
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Wildhood : the epic journey from adolescence to adulthood in humans and other animals
\" In their critically acclaimed bestseller, Zoobiquity, the authors revealed the essential connection between human and animal health. In Wildhood, they turn the same eye-opening, species-spanning lens to adolescent young adult life. Traveling around the world and drawing from their latest research, they find that the same four universal challenges are faced by every adolescent human and animal on earth: how to be safe, how to navigate hierarchy; how to court potential mates; and how to feed oneself. Safety. Status. Sex. Self-reliance. How human and animal adolescents and young adults confront the challenges of wildhood shapes their adult destinies\"--Amazon.
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Aspects in the development of holistic vision in Paz's poetry between 1931-1976
This study focuses on Paz's poetry (1931-1976) in order to investigate the extent to which Octavio Paz envisions holism as an answer to the human dilemma. In his earliest poems we can perceive what we have called his discovery of otherness. He reveals his awareness of the dualities that dwell within the universe and regards them as opposing pairs that constantly interact, thereby continually defining each other. Yet, what he seeks is the reconciliation of opposites to form a whole. From the beginning he views the possibility of oneness in terms of love, the union of polar opposites, man and woman. He sees it in the communion of man with man, in the fusion of poet with poetry, and even in the integration of reader with poet. Chapter one takes into account Paz's earliest poems (1931-1937), which have not been collected in later publications: \"Cabellera\" (1931), \"Preludio viajero\" (1931), \"Orilla\" (1931), \"Nocturno de la ciudad abandonada\" (1931), \"Poema del retorno\" (1932), Luna silvestre (1933), \"!No pasaran!\" (1936), and \"Oda a Espana\" (1937). Due to the complete absence or superficial nature of the existing literary criticism, it is necessary to provide in-depth analyses of the poems in order to present a more comprehensive picture of Paz's early evolution as a poet and to discover the shadows of wholeness that materialize in his later poetry. Chapter two includes poems from the 1968 edition of Libertad bajo palabra and marks an era of crisis for the poet, as evidenced by poems from \"Puerta condenada\", \"Calamidades y milagros\", \" quesAguila o sol?\", and \"La estacion violenta\". However, a degree of progress toward envisioning \"la vida mas vida\" and toward overcoming otherness becomes perceptible. Chapter three deals with Paz's gradual move toward holism in Salamandra (1962), Ladera este (1969), Pasado en claro (1975), and Vuelta (1976) as an answer to his personal crisis. We can postulate something approximating to a four-step process: as the poet approaches self-integration, his poetic creation tends to be linked to a more harmonious world view, which in turn leads (ideally) to the reader's participation in the holistic process.
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Grooming gone wild; In a new book, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz explains how the study of animals is changing the way we look at pain, pleasure and the origins of self-injury
Birds with names like Juliet, Zeke, Jubilee and Ms. Earl were all perfectly healthy, until one day their owners discovered a pile of colourful plumage at the bottom of the cage . . . and a bald patch on their pet's shoulder or chest or tail. The owners installed humidifiers, smoothed aloe vera on the stubbled skin and invested in higher-quality birdseed.
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Zoophoria; In a new book, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz explains how the study of animals is changing the way we look at getting high and getting clean
According to her owners, after these amphibian benders Lady would be \"disoriented and withdrawn, soporific and glassy-eyed.\" According to the author and alcohol historian Iain Gately, Aristotle also recorded a way to trap wild monkeys by enticing them with alcohol.
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Dr. House, meet Dr. Dolittle; In a new book, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz explains how the study of animals is changing the way we look at human medicine
In the spring of 2005, the chief veterinarian of the Los Angeles Zoo called me, an urgent edge to his voice. From time to time, however, the zoo veterinarians asked me to weigh in on some of their more difficult animal cases. Because UCLA is a leading heart-transplant hospital, I'd had a front-row view of every type of human heart failure.
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What fat pigs (and other animals) can teach us about our own waistlines
With our pets' excess pounds has come the familiar suite of life-threatening ailments: diabetes, cardiovascular problems, musculoskeletal disorders, glucose intolerance, some cancers and possibly high blood pressure. Over the past 40 years, yellow-bellied marmots in the Colorado Rockies, country rats in the north-eastern United States and blue whales off the coast of California have become chubbier and chubbier.
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