Kelly Enright's Blog, page 2
August 16, 2011
Looking prehistoric: observations on rhinos and extinction
As rhinos grow increasingly threatened—in the wild and in museum halls—they become a symbol of all animals suffering possible extinction. But rhinos have long had such an image. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, those who encountered rhinoceroses, saw them as prehistoric relics, and expressed a sense of inevitability to their extinction. Even [...]
July 18, 2011
Art or nature?: considering the post-mortem poaching of rhinos
The surrealist artist Salvador Dali believed the horn of the rhinoceros to be among the most perfectly constructed objects in nature for its logarithmic spiral that maintains the same curve as it grows. Upon being given one as a gift, he exclaimed, "This horn will save my life!" Dali strived to mimic its pattern in [...]
June 22, 2011
Mountain lion in Connecticut: the re-wilding of eastern forests
Earlier this month, a mountain lion wandered through the campus of a private school for boys in Greenwich, Connecticut. Staff snapped a quick photograph through a window and, though a bit blurred, even skeptical experts agree it appears to be a mountain lion. Mountain lions have not lived in significant numbers in the eastern states [...]
