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I Would Rather Have Been Born an Orca

Posted on May 24, 2014 by jeffreymasson

No kidding. I really would. What sets me off can be just about any account of an atrocity, because my first thought is: no orca ever does this. The latest was reading about the “desaparecidos” in Argentina during … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged apex predator, Chelsea Manning, Daniel Ellsberg, desaparecidos argentina, Edward Snowden, orcas, Primo Levi, the Dodo | 5 Comments

Orcas Who Play with Their Food

Posted on August 29, 2011 by jeffreymasson

You probably know the orca by its other name: the killer whale. This name is old. In 1835, R. Hamilton wrote that the killer whale “…has the character of being exceedingly voracious and warlike. It devours an immense number of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Rights, Animals, Vegetarianism and Veganism | Tagged absence of in orca society, apex predators, baby lambs, baby seals, compassion in orcas, culture in orcas, daniel defoe, empathy, enormous brains of orcas, genocide, Howard Garrett, Jewish grandmothers, killer whales, Lyall Watson, Maori elders, murder, Naomi Rose, not eating meat, orca aggression, orcas, orcas and humans, orcas and tyranny, orcas don't kill each other, rape, sentimentality, spindle cells, torture, tyrants, Upanishads, vegan choice, vegetarianism | 5 Comments

Peaceable Kingdom

Posted on July 22, 2011 by jeffreymasson

Some years ago I conducted a fairly ordinary experiment in group living: I introduced a baby rabbit, two baby rats, a kitten, a puppy, and a rooster and a chick to one another at a very early age, and surprise, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Rights, Animals, Uncategorized | Tagged animal compassion, animal rights, apex predators, benign animal experiments, jeffrey masson, kittens and rabbits as friends, orcas, peaceable kingdom, pet chickens, pet rats, prey species, rabbits, sentimentalism, veganism, violence, walking on the beach with cats, watering holes | 3 Comments

Ants and War

Posted on June 2, 2011 by jeffreymasson

I don’t think we can help it. We are a species given to making comparisons. We like analogies, and metaphors, and some of us (OK, me) anthropomorphize regularly. I have been a vigorous defender of this practice, especially in my … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged animal emotions, ant killing, ant personalities, Anthill, anthropomorphism, ants, apex predators, Argentine ants, Con Slobodchikoff, Deborah Gordon, dogs and friendship, domestication, elephants and grief, EO Wilson, Felicity Huntingford, Gunnison prairie dog alarm calls, Harry Harlow, Mark Moffett, Martian zoologist, myrmecology, orcas, slavery in ants, sociobiology, The Ants, The Small Majority, war | 2 Comments

Crocs and Us

Posted on April 12, 2011 by jeffreymasson

Crocs and Us . Recently we were warned that there was a great white shark swimming not far from our house on the beach in Auckland. Nobody entered the ocean for weeks. If you told me the chances of being … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Rights, Animals | Tagged alpha predator, altruism in animals, altruistic behavior in animals, American alligator, apex predator, compassion in animals, crocodiles, fatal crocodile attacks, gueltas, Mauritania, Nile crocodile, orcas, sacred crocodiles, Saltwater crocodile, supreme predator, young crocodiles distress call | 4 Comments

What distinguishes humans from animals?

Posted on January 10, 2011 by jeffreymasson

For years the myth was of “Man the Hunter.” Gone now, thank god. But in its place do we really need to be “Man the hunted?” That humans have always been prey to larger, better equipped predators like the big … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Rights, Animals | Tagged altruism., animal liberators, apex predators, big cats, bystanders, human, hunt, jeffrey masson, jesus ants, killing animals, orcas, war, Wolves | 9 Comments

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