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Early Struggles to Maintain Captive Dolphins at the New York Public Aquarium
Methods for capturing and maintaining dolphins resulted not only in knowledge about captivity requirements but also in mass deaths and suffering.
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A Blue-Green Oasis in the Heart of the Kazakh Steppe: The Korgalzhyn Nature Reserve
The Korgalzhyn nature reserve is a blue-green oasis of protected nature in the heart of the semi-arid Kazakh steppe.
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Of Ghost Nets and the Haunting at Nissum Bredning
This article follows “the Danish Society for a Living Sea” and their engagement with ghost nets and “local haunting dynamics.”
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Good Foods and Bad Foods: The 1862 Measles Epidemic and Diet in Edo
This article explores changing dietary practices during the 1862 measles epidemic in Edo, Japan.
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Cryptids and Disasters: Serpents and a Werewolf in the Western Indian Ocean Region
In Tanzania and Mauritius, physical disasters are filtered through cultural lenses, including sightings of cryptids: serpents and a werewolf.
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Multispecies Walden Woods: Reevaluating Thoreau’s Religion
What happens when we look at Walden Woods of 1845 through a multispecies lens?
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Threats to the Hadzabe and Why We Should Care
A look at the sociopolitical and environmental threats facing the Hadzabe hunter-gatherers in the Eyasi Basin, Tanzania.
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Making Rain under the Mallas
Nepalese manuscripts on rainmaking rituals offer data on droughts in historical climate reconstructions.
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The Mighty Streams: Coping with Rivers in the Ancient World
This article presents examples of ancient conceptions of rivers as more-than-human agents and their struggle with humans.
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From Wilderness to Breeding Farms: The Domestication of the Chinchilla lanigera
When Mathias Chapman opened his first chinchilla breeding farm in Southern California, he also saved the fur trade industry.