Orion Magazine - https://www.orionmagazine.org/category/animals-2/ America's Finest Environmental Magazine Mon, 20 Nov 2023 19:04:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 195321810 River https://orionmagazine.org/poetry/river-ellen-bass-poem/ Mon, 27 Nov 2023 05:00:08 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=poem&p=269615 The McKenzie River’s half in shade, half molten silver and today, in the shallow water, a single salmon, has made it back to where she began, her scintillant body that moves ...

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]]> 269615 A Dangerous Game of Chicken https://orionmagazine.org/article/bird-flu-chicken-pandemic/ Tue, 05 Sep 2023 18:51:56 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=267795 IF FUTURE HUMANS WERE TO GUESS which animal we most revered, depended upon, and loved, it would not be our cat and canine companions, noble horses, or overworked cows. It would ...

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]]> 267795 Messengers from the Past https://orionmagazine.org/article/sandhill-crane-migration-new-mexico/ Tue, 08 Nov 2022 05:00:32 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=252355 Priyanka Kumar’s “Messengers from the Past” is excerpted from Conversations with Birds. I. THE CROWN JEWEL OF OUR National Wildlife Refuge System, the Bosque del Apache, has been my annual pilgrimage ...

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]]> 252355 Kinship Is a Verb https://orionmagazine.org/article/kinship-is-a-verb/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/kinship-is-a-verb/#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2021 01:19:19 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=235713 In thinking about kinship, it’s important to begin with: What are the boundaries of our kin?

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/kinship-is-a-verb/feed/ 4 235713 Isolation & Wonder in the Pribilof Islands https://orionmagazine.org/article/pribilof1/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/pribilof1/#comments Mon, 04 Oct 2021 22:24:53 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=232854 This article covers Alaska's Pribilof Islands: their beauty and biodiversity, their cultural history, the environmental challenges the islands face, and the proposed solutions. ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/pribilof1/feed/ 6 232854 When Nature Breaks the Law: An Interview With Mary Roach, Author of Fuzz https://orionmagazine.org/2021/09/when-nature-breaks-the-law-an-interview-with-mary-roach-author-of-fuzz/ https://orionmagazine.org/2021/09/when-nature-breaks-the-law-an-interview-with-mary-roach-author-of-fuzz/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:37:41 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?p=229180   MARY ROACH IS A SCIENCE JOURNALIST, top-notch storyteller, and Orion advisor. She’s the author of six New York Times bestsellers, including STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, GULP: Adventures ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/2021/09/when-nature-breaks-the-law-an-interview-with-mary-roach-author-of-fuzz/feed/ 1 229180 Broken Badlands https://orionmagazine.org/article/broken-badlands/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/broken-badlands/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:06:28 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=224770 I WHEN WE ARE SMALL and close to the earth, there is more landscape than time. It’s only later that we forget. Only later that we begin to play pretend. I was ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/broken-badlands/feed/ 7 224770 Once There Were Wolves https://orionmagazine.org/article/once-wolves/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/once-wolves/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2021 16:04:50 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=221165 There is a woman in the audience holding a sign that reads CIGARETTES AND WOLVES, KILLERS THAT COME IN PACKS and a kid waving one that says WILL THERE BE ANY DEER LEFT WHEN I GROW UP? I roll my eyes. ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/once-wolves/feed/ 1 221165 Summer Diary https://orionmagazine.org/article/summer-diary/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/summer-diary/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2021 19:29:46 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=213816 The season tells you what you need to know. ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/summer-diary/feed/ 2 213816 Cicadas Still Sing https://orionmagazine.org/article/cicadas-still-sing/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/cicadas-still-sing/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2021 18:44:29 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=213810 IN LATE JUNE, the thrum of annual cicadas, or chicharras, as we call them here in San Antonio, becomes the dominant sound of summer. The air percolates with percussion as males buckle ...

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