Antelopes and elephants, hornbills and hyenas

Abstract The Living Elephants is the authoritative resource for information on both Asian and African elephants. From the ancient origins of the proboscideans to ...

Translated into English for the first time,My AnimalsandFlowersbring forth Theodor Lessing’s visionary philosophy of need in an idiosyncratic series of musings on the natural world...

This chapter retraces the genealogy of the well-known parable of the “blind men and the elephants,” which is often cited by scholars who want to champion religious pluralism or inc...