You might have seen articles lately (for example here and here) announcing the return of the European bison (Bison bonasus), a seeming success story for the rewilding movement in Europe. Surely, it is a great thing to have an animal come back from the brink! However, what is less talked about, and what I want to […]
Month: March 2016
Looking back to go forward
Before humans domesticated wild animals, meaning before we managed to control the reproductive cycle of animals with the goal of using their abilities for our gain, there was a wealth of beasts that might have become servants of the human project. Only a fraction of them were amenable to domestication (as Jared Diamond has argued […]
The Civil Animal 