Does Antle fear identification with the ordinary more than felony charges? RICHMOND, Virginia––Kevin “Doc” Antle, who styles himself “Mahamayavia Bhagavan Antle,” appears to have spent most of his adult life trying to avoid being identified with his youth in Bettendorf, Iowa, never once mentioned in any of dozens of interviews with him collected by […]
Koalas: Zen In Fur
Edited by Joanne Ehrich Koala Jo Publishing (http://www.koalajo.com/books.html), 2006. 97 pages, paperback. Originally published at $35.00, now discounted. Early in 2006 graphic artist Koala Jo Ehrich produced a lavish 260-page photo collection entitled Koalas: Moving Portraits of Serenity, with an afterword by celebrity zoo personality Jack Hanna, to help the Australian Koala Foundation raise money for koala conservation and […]
How 2011 Zanesville massacre moved Ohio to act on exotic wildlife
46 animal deaths & a suicide belatedly impelled anti-regulation politicians to regulate ZANESVILLE, Ohio––Six years after exotic animal collector Terry Thompson, of Zanesville, Ohio, released 56 lions, tigers, leopards, pumas, wolves, bears and monkeys before committing suicide on October 18, 2011, “Ohio no longer has a reputation as a state with lax animal laws,” recently […]
Myth: that the gorilla Harambe “protected” fallen four-year-old
Infanticide is among leading causes of gorilla deaths in the wild Part II of a four-part series. See also: The myth & mystery of Harambe the Cincinnati Zoo gorilla; Conclusion: what the life & death of Harambe the gorilla means; And the lesson from Harambe’s death is? Well, it’s not to blame mom. Much of the […]