In the Classroom: Africa and Animals

Right now I’m listening to the NPR show On Being where they are talking withKaty Payne, “a renowned acoustic biologist with a Quaker sensibility.” Her comments about elephants in particular are so moving and made me think about the recent complicated responses to the killing of Cecil the lion.

I was completelydisgusted and disturbed when first learning of Cecil’s death as trophy hunting seems a completely horrible activity to me. But as the media juggernaut continuedit struck me that here aga...