The birds at my balcony appear to be really impatient and sad. I was just back from a field trip and there was no food on the bird feeder kept on my balcony. While I had kept some grains on the feeder before leaving for field work, there was nothing there now. I cursed myself. … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Human-animal Relationship
Book Review: The Horse Lover by H. Alan Day with L. Wiese Sneyd
My Rating **** The Horse Lover: A Cowboy’s Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs by H. Alan Day with Lynn Wiese Sneyd is the memoir of Alan Day. This is a heart touching tale of Alan Day’s efforts to save the wild mustangs. Day’s personal life in this book reads like a novel with his … Continue reading
Book Review: “Butchering Poultry, Rabbit, Lamb, Goat, and Pork: The Comprehensive Photographic Guide to Humane Slaughtering and Butchering” by Adam Danforth
My Rating (****) The inclusion of meat as a regular part of diet not only determined the behavioural patterns of the early hominids but also directed the course of human evolution. While the precise path through which the earliest tool technologies emerged is not known, the experimental studies show that a majority of these stone … Continue reading
Review of ‘Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs’ by David Grimm
My Rating (*****) I received this book from Netgalley to read and review before it is published. Dogs and cats play a very important role in people’s lives today. People not only love and pamper them but even treat them like their own children. In other words, these animals have become an inseparable part of … Continue reading