Showing posts with label Perissodactyla. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Perissodactyla. Show all posts
Friday, September 25, 2026

Pons asinus

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  - So how *does* bhoga become yoga? - Dude, you´ve been a monk for too long! If your religion includes a talking donkey (viz. Judaism and C...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Alter Ego

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  So I just saw a French science documentary, "Alter Ego", on Swedish TV about cloning. Artificial human cloning of non-human anim...
Monday, September 2, 2024

The first one thousand years

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  “Olympiska spelen: De första tusen åren” (Olympic Games: The first one thousand years) is a book in Swedish, written by classicist, archeo...
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Friday, March 15, 2024

The myth of the smallpox goddess

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  The closest thing to Shitala´s "Tantric" form I could prompt the prude AI to generate  “Religion, Devotion and Medicine in North...
Monday, February 26, 2024

My kingdom for a quagga

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  - Daniell´s Quagga? Yeah, I vaguely remember him,  annoying as heck, always tried to steal the best grass! When I was a kid, Swedish schoo...
Saturday, September 16, 2023

The logick of the Houyhnhnms

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  Isn´t this dangerous or something? I mean, the Houyhnhnms could catch some dangerous disease from that pesky little Yahoo! 
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Dålig förlorare

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  Kan inte låta bli att länka till denna... 
Friday, October 7, 2022

Gone forever, happy anyway

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  "Sure hope I get extinct soon!" Mesopotamian murals depict a horse-like mystery animal 500 years before the introduction of the ...
Monday, December 7, 2020

My republic for a horse

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A fascinating article about one of the first animal rights crusades. The year was 1872. Note the similarities with modern environmentalist a...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Hoofed as a mammal

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After the (perhaps unexpected) success of Lynx Edicions' mammoth project “Handbook of the Birds of the World” (HBW), a multi-vol...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

The dog that ate my donkey

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“The Guardiam Team” by Cat Urbigkit is a children's book with a seemingly unbelievable plot, set on a ranch in Wyoming. Rena is ...
Saturday, August 25, 2018

On the guard

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This might be the ultimate guide to dogs, donkeys and llamas as livestock guardians. It's written from a North American perspect...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Please don´t call it onager

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“Mammals of the Soviet Union” is one of those classical, old and impossibly large multi-volume encyclopedias of a kind that's not ...