Barbara J. King
@bjking.bsky.social
Anthropologist; animal advocate; science writer, next book coming on cats; caretaker of aging cats. Books include How Animals Grieve; Animals' Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals; see www.barbarajking.com for more.
Endorse what my friend and colleague Dr. Lori Marino says here- yes, this is a mother grieving the loss of her child. #dolphins #cetaceans #animalgrief #death #grief #nature
Video: Dolphin Carries Dead Calf in What Experts Call Mourning
Footage posted by a conservancy group offers an unusual glimpse of a common behavior by dolphins that often goes unobserved.
nytimes.com
Endorse what my friend and colleague Dr. Lori Marino says here- yes, this is a mother grieving the loss of her child. #dolphins #cetaceans #animalgrief #death #grief #nature
Video: Dolphin Carries Dead Calf in What Experts Call Mourning
Footage posted by a conservancy group offers an unusual glimpse of a common behavior by dolphins that often goes unobserved.
nytimes.com
By @sabs.bsky.social on the question of behavior akin to pet-keeping by non-human primates #primates #primatology #pets #anthropology #nature #animals
Can A Monkey Have A Pet? | Defector
In the spring of 2004, researchers monitoring a population of wild bearded capuchins in a Brazilian woodland saw an infant clinging to Chiquinha, one of the adult female monkeys. The baby was not a ca...
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Monumental circles, squares, other geometric figures, some with connecting roads, found beneath Amazon forest canopy, "with nearly 400 previously unknown earthworks in all. Many are formations that archaeologists call geoglyphs and date from between 600 B.C. to 850 A.D." #archaeology #anthropology
Archaeologists Find Hundreds of Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon (Gift Article)
The geometric earthwork structures, carved into the ground with embankments and ditches, are in some cases more than 2,500 years old, researchers said.
nytimes.com
"the light arriving from the stars was younger, too, the birds dreaming in the tree cavities were the birds of the past, growth rings had vanished from the trees in which they slept" #SundaySentence from Transcription by Ben Lerner openlettersreview.com/posts/transc...
Transcription by Ben Lerner — Open Letters Review
A review of the new novel by “The Topeka School” author Ben Lerner
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His students continued to move him deeply, partly now because he felt that he was delivering them to an unsafe world. - Elizabeth Strout, in The Things We Never Say, included on the Booker longlist and Pres. Obama's summer list. #SundaySentence (@barackobama.bsky.social thank you)
Had mammogram, Dexa scans at hospital today. Got excited when among patients and staff I spied ONE other person masked...'til I saw it was below her nose...oh well. Onwards. What I'd do without @michael-hoerger.bsky.social's data, encouragement, #CovidCautious community, I don't know. #stillmasking
Had mammogram, Dexa scans at hospital today. Got excited when among patients and staff I spied ONE other person masked...'til I saw it was below her nose...oh well. Onwards. What I'd do without @michael-hoerger.bsky.social's data, encouragement, #CovidCautious community, I don't know. #stillmasking
This article and video about Julie, an elephant formerly forced to perform in a circus and now residing at the expansive Pangea Elephant Sanctuary in Portugal, brought tears to my eyes. These are good people, helping her, and soon, others. #elephants #animalwelfare #animalrights #Portugal
After 40 years in a Portuguese circus, elephant retires to become the first resident of a new sanctuary
Julie the elephant starts a new life.
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Discovering #WindowsWednesday! Here's a photo I took last week at the Shaker Museum in Enfield, New Hampshire. Part of a Shaker dining room filled with white and light to emulate heaven. #Shakers #museum #light
Splendid... A wall of windows, a bathing bird, a man with a sign for legs. Hope your day is a little surreal. #WindowsonWednesday #windows #WindowsWednesday #WednesdayWindows #WallsOnWednesday #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Reflections #AbLeg #YEG
When this NY school decided to deploy an AI-powered robot in (....wait for it) robotics class, "unionized teachers took aim at Realbotix's sex doll sister company." I'm no great fan of #AI in high schools overall but..robotics class? With the central worry about..sex dolls? Huh? #education #robotics
New York school pauses plan to deploy humanlike AI robot teacher after backlash
A school district in upstate New York is pausing plans to deploy an AI-powered, humanoid robot in the classroom after state education officials, teachers and local residents raised concerns.
npr.org
Oh no- save all the primates from AI?! #primates #primatology #Anthropology #animalcognition #AI
In This Costa Rican Forest, Monkeys Come Face-to-Face With A.I.
CapuchinAI, a portable testing station equipped with a touch screen and facial recognition software, could help scientists study primate intelligence in the wild.
nytimes.com
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCurves Minoan jar with octopus motif (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford). 📷 #photography #ancienthistory #museum #bronzeage #minoan #octopus
Beautiful pollinator at the gardens of The House of 7 Gables, Salem, Massachusetts. #bees #insects #pollinators #nature
"Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing." #SundaySentence, Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami.
"A military power beyond conception, a judiciary power with severe, restrictive laws, and a school system to educate senseless brutes in the ecstasy of self-sacrifice; such is the outlook." My #SundaySentence is from The Oppermanns (1933) by Lion Feuchtwanger. Translated by James Cleugh.
Flipper is in my office monitoring my progress on HIGHWAY FULL OF NIGHT
Feeling joy at the news that corporate Nueva Pescanova's plans for a large-scale octopus farm in Gran Canaria, Spain, are finally shut down. This follows years of international global activism (my role was small to be sure but done with love for octopuses)!! #octopus #animalwelfare #animalrights
Victory! Plans for World’s First Octopus Farm Abandoned
Hundreds of thousands of octopuses will be spared from a life of misery.
peta.org.uk
Feeling joy at the news that corporate Nueva Pescanova's plans for a large-scale octopus farm in Gran Canaria, Spain, are finally shut down. This follows years of international global activism (my role was small to be sure but done with love for octopuses)!! #octopus #animalwelfare #animalrights
Victory! Plans for World’s First Octopus Farm Abandoned
Hundreds of thousands of octopuses will be spared from a life of misery.
peta.org.uk
They want to deport a Cambodian refugee whos been here since infancy. This is the antithesis of justice. www.wpri.com/news/immigra...
‘Keep Chansareth Home’: Advocates protest outside as ICE detains longtime Providence resident
As a longtime Providence resident reported for his scheduled ICE check-in Wednesday afternoon, advocates gathered outside the Warwick field office to protest his imminent deportation.
wpri.com
Saw my first-ever evening grosbeak yesterday! In an aviary - for good reasons of bird rescue. As always visiting the birds at Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Quechee is enjoyable. #birds #nature #animalrescue #Vermont
When House Republicans say some words about the Smithsonian and then quite spectacularly fail to understand anything about them: "in the museum's current telling, history is just an ongoing power struggle between oppressors and the oppressed." #museum #museumstudies #anthropology #Smithsonian #DOGE
Smithsonian too focused on 'oppressors and the oppressed,' say House Republicans
In a House DOGE subcommittee hearing, GOP representatives excoriated the director of the National Museum of American History, following a White House report earlier this month that also criticized her...
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When House Republicans say some words about the Smithsonian and then quite spectacularly fail to understand anything about them: "in the museum's current telling, history is just an ongoing power struggle between oppressors and the oppressed." #museum #museumstudies #anthropology #Smithsonian #DOGE
Smithsonian too focused on 'oppressors and the oppressed,' say House Republicans
In a House DOGE subcommittee hearing, GOP representatives excoriated the director of the National Museum of American History, following a White House report earlier this month that also criticized her...
npr.org
Hello Vermont! Quite the drive from Virginia, and I'm happy for your mountain summer coolness. #Vermont #roadtrip #worklifebalance
Orangutan moms in the wild actively plan meet-ups for their kids with other orangutan kids #orangutans #apes #primates #anthropology #nature
Orangutan mothers ‘arrange jungle playdates for their young’
A 15-year study has revealed how famously solitary apes plan meetings, and skip meals, so their babies can romp with other orangutan infants
thetimes.com
