Sometimes reality has to be seen to be believed, but it also has to be believed to be seen.
I find this quote very interesting, it pretty much says that these stuffed animals might be real if people believe it. It makes it so that the viewer decides what is real rather than facts and logic.
It is not known how many animals were shot by Teddy Roosevelt, the “conservationist president.” The number was certainly in the thousands.
I did not know that teddy roosevelt killed all of these animals. If I remember correctly, he helped save all of them but that may of been so he could keep hunting.
Some 38 million customers visited the museum in its lifetime, more than the total population of the United States at that time. There was much humbuggery—the Feejee mermaid was in fact half baby monkey and half fish, sewn together and covered in papier mâché (a very well-executed fake)
Despite being labeled as natural the animals in this exhibit are not natural. However, humans natural tendencies to create new things are on display.
ristotle, mistaking curiosity for a lack of intelligence, called the octopus a ‘stupid creature’ because of its willingness to approach an extended human hand.
This shows that our understanding of nature and animals gets deeper and changes depending on the timeframe that is researched.
In that case the octopus will have something to teach us about the limits of our own understanding.
This shows that we can reflect on octopi to see what humans could have been if we were in water instead of on land.
s that octopuses are difficult to keep in captivity. Many octopuses have escaped their aquarium tanks through small holes; some have been known to lift the lid of their tank, making their way, sometimes across stretches of dry floor, to a neighbouring tank for a snack, or to the nearest drain, and maybe from there back home to the sea.
I interpret this as octopi not respecting human nature. Humans tend to do as they are told the octopus has no issue escaping and going for a stroll around the building outside of water.
Beston understood that nonhuman creatures eluded the definitions made for them by man, that they could not be classified as mechanisms programmed by the master software designer in the sky to hop, growl, swim, glide, roar, nest, crawl, peep, mate.
This shows that he believes that animals have the same free will as humans.
Other peoples in other parts of the world developed different sets of relations with animals worshipped as gods, but in the European theaters of operation, they served as teachers of both natural and political science.
There is no right way to see an animal. Depending on your culture, it can be either something godly, or just a cute novelty
The unpleasantness didn’t make the paper. The photograph was taken before the trouble began, and so the next morning in print, there we were, the koala and I, man and beast glad to see one another, the San Francisco Examiner’s very own Christopher Robin framed in the glow of an A-list fairy tale with Brer Rabbit, Teddy Roosevelt, and Winnie-the-Pooh, all for one and one for all as once had been our common lot in Eden.
I take this to mean that the image painted by the media is not often the truth. While in reality the Koala was terrified, the newspaper prints showed something wholesome. It is important to be wary of things we read