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COP26 – Are we Hopeful or Cooked?
I had first sight of Jane Goodall decades ago at Edinburgh University where an excited audience gathered for her seminar. Looking like a slim owl in brown plumage, she wore a signature ponytail even then, though not yet grey. She … Continue reading
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Tagged chimpanzee, David Greybeard, Gombe National Park, Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope
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Chimps Head for Retirement
In 1871, the now-extinct Hornet magazine published a cartoon of Charles Darwin looking like a human-ape chimera. It was not meant kindly. We might suppose that progressive Victorian thinkers would have embraced chimps, gorillas, orangs, etc. as newly-found cousins. Perhaps … Continue reading
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Tagged animal rights, Charles Darwin, chimpanzee, St. Francis, Thomas Berry
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 