Quentin Jones’ Paint Test No. 1

...we must be very careful not to exaggerate the uniqueness of our species. The ancients apparently never gave much thought to this practice, the opposite of anthropomorphism, and so we lack a word for it. I will call it anthropodenial: a blindness to the humanlike characteristics of other animals, or the animal-like characteristics of ourselves.

Frans de Waal

Prosper d’Epinay -Bacchante – 1866

Cuando de proteger la biodiversidad se trata, cualquier otro valor debe quedar subordinado a los resultados provisionales de la investigación inteligente y cooperativa, a la valoración en caso de conflicto, a la revisión y al consecuente reacomodo del sistema de valores característico de una racionalidad práctica y crítica. Tras el último siglo de serios destrozos en la biosfera, quizá no quepa aspirar a otra cosa que a ser mejores predecesores y evitar que las generaciones futuras nos reprochen que la cortedad de nuestros intereses y de nuestras lealtades haya sido más fuerte que nuestra obligación de cuidar la biodiversidad y procurar su continuidad. Un ambiente con facebook, twitter y skype, pero sin ranas, sin manatíes o sin monos araña es decididamente un ambiente de valor menguante.

Esteban, J. Miguel (2013),  Naturaleza y Conducta Humana. Conceptos, valores y prácticas para la educación ambiental. Ed. Palibrio: Bloomington.

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No. I'm not making a problem out of a personal question, I make of a personal question an abscence of a problem.

Foucault, in The Chomsky-Foucault debate on Human Nature

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The Silent World of dogs...

In this sequence of Jacques Cousteau ‘The Silent World " (from min. 50:05 to 58:07 approximately), the Calypso follows a herd of sperm whales and fatally hit a small breeding. Soon, many sharks congregate around the body and begin to devour it. The sailors are horrified and fascinated. But suddenly got mad. They attack the sharks, lift them up to the deck and killing them, with axes and maces. The crew's dog seems to not support the slaughter of sharks and goes away, or is only afraid ...? The sailors finally calm down and play curiously with barnacles accompanying sharks. Colin Dayan begins his book 'With dogs at the edge of life' narrating this sequence and observes: "... only the dog responds with what we can interpret as spot-on in Its gentle, unremitting regard".

https://youtu.be/3jH2QkP-Bvg?list=PLNbb3PVOt4uJ9SfgG0WqA0qv9aK4wALwb&t=3004

Fuego & frío

http://player.vimeo.com/video/57125220

Lux aeterna!