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Killing the Female:  The Psychology of the Hunt

August 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Why hunters hunt––and why far more men quit hunting now than take it up Seán McCormack,  managing trustee of the Animal Care Trust in Taiwan,  recently brought to our attention “Hunting Linked To Psychosexual Inadequacy & The 5 Phases Of A Hunter’s Life Of Sexual Frustration,”  by Brent Lambert,  published in November 2016 under the subject […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Hunting & trapping, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Brent Lambert, Ernest Hemingway, Gregory Hemingway, Karl Menninger, Margaret Brooke-Williams, Margaux Hemingway, Merritt Clifton, Robert Jackson, Robert Norton, Thomas Heberlein

Iconic animal use events fall to COVID-19: “Running of the bulls” is latest

April 22, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“Social distancing” also shuts down SeaWorld, seal hunt, fur auctions, Kentucky Derby,  & the carriage horses in Central Park             PAMPLONA,  Spain ––The 700-year-old Festival of San Fermin, featuring bullfights and the “running of the bulls” through the cobbled streets of the oldest part of Pamplona, Spain, was on April 21, 2020 indefinitely postponed due […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal racing, Bullfighting, Bullfighting, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur trapping, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Marine life, Marine mammals, Mediterranean, Racing, Scandinavia, Spain, Spectacles, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, Working horses Tagged With: Ana Elizalde, Ernest Hemingway, Kentucky Derby, Kopenhagen Fur, Merritt Clifton, Saga Furs

Spanish Supreme Court ends 566-year-old bull-spearing rite

March 26, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Judges rule against hearing further appeals against order to stop MADRID––A March 18,  2019 decision by the Spanish Supreme Court to hear no further appeals of a Castilla y León provincial order banning the traditional Toro de la Vega bullfight appears to have finally ended one of the oldest annual celebrations of cruelty persisting into […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Bullfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Mediterranean, Spain Tagged With: Ana Teresa Roca, Ernest Hemingway, González Poncela, Mariano Rajoy, Merritt Clifton, Silvia Barquero

Meet Blake Fischer, baboon family killer & apostle of bowhunting

October 18, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Frequent model for his father’s bowhunting magazine             BOISE,  Idaho––The Blake Owen Fischer baboon family killing-and-display saga did not end on October 15,  2018,  when Idaho Governor Butch Otter announced that Fischer,  40,  had resigned from the Idaho Fish & Game Commission. Indeed,  the most influential part of the story has yet to transpire. What […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Captive animals, Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Namibia, Poaching & trafficking, Predators, Sub-Saharan, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Blake Fischer, Chad Cripe, Elizabeth Blom, Ernest Hemingway, John Henry Patterson, Larry Fischer, Merritt Clifton

$10 billion from China buys big changes in Kenya wildlife tourism

October 6, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Effects parallel those of bringing rail travel to Yellowstone in 1902             NAIROBI,  Kenya––Looming over Kenya like the Standard Gauge Railway trestle at the northern edge of Nairobi National Park,  or the marabou storks overlooking the dense traffic on the highway into Nairobi from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport,  is the question of how $10 billion […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Asia, Asia/Pacific, China, Conservation, Crustaceans, Cultural, Deer & other horned species, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Laws, Marine life, Poaching & trafficking, Predators, Sub-Saharan, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Abel Muhatia, Anna Ge, Apurva Sanghi, Ben Okita-Ouma, Chang Ming Chuang, Dong Yi, Dylan Johnson, Erick Kiraithe, Ernest Hemingway, Fred Kaigwa, George Murage, Gilbert Koech, Henry John Delves Broughton, John Henry Patterson, Josslyn Hay, Lee Changqin, Lee Kinyanjui, Lilian Musili, Luo Jnili, Margaret Mwakima, Merritt Clifton, Nicanor Sabula, Paul Mbugua, Peter Mutai, Steve Njumbi, Wu Peng Te, Wu Yi, Zheng He

Hurricane Irma: Hemingway cats & dolphin rescuer Rick Trout rode it out in the Keys

September 11, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Hemingway house cats supplied the grace,  staff the courage (See also Hurricane Irma: first reports on animals in the Caribbean islands.)          KEY WEST,  TAVERNIER––Having famously remarked that “Courage is grace under pressure,”  and almost as famously doted upon the six-toed cat Snowflake,  also called Snowball,  who roamed his Key West home during his years there,  […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Birds, Caribbean, Cats, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Insects, Marine life, Marine mammals, Shelters, The Americas, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Dave Gonzales, David Goodhue, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Flagler, Jacqui Sands, Lindsey Thompson, Merritt Clifton, Rick Trout, Shirley McGreal

A pro-animal perspective in defense of Ernest Hemingway

September 26, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

by Merritt Clifton A strong literary argument might be made that while Ernest Hemingway justly regarded Mark Twain as the most influential American author before Hemingway’s own time,  Hemingway himself was the most influential American author of the 20th century,  chiefly for popularizing the terse writing style that has dominated men’s writing done for mostly […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Book & film reviews, Bullfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment Tagged With: Ernest Hemingway, Merritt Clifton

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