Ken Ramirez Letter
On My Mind: Zoos Then and Now
By Karen Pryor on 08/10/2010What’s a good thing to do with a bunch of kids on a summer day? Go to the zoo! I’ve never gotten over my childhood love of zoos. I took my kids, and now I take theirs (you can share a memorable visit to the zoo with my grandchildren in Reaching the Animal Mind, Chapter 5, Creativity).
On My Mind: A Summer Dream
By Karen Pryor on 07/13/2010If God made man in his own image, I figure God made woman in his own image, too, and lots of other things, too. I mean, God might not always care to look like a male primate. Sometimes She might look beautiful in other ways, and make other things in her own image. Jellyfish, for instance. What could be more beautiful—and fun to be, too? Jellyfish have nerve centers all around the circle, like lots of little brains that do things together.
On My Mind: Reaching the Animal Mind Celebrates its First Birthday!
By Karen Pryor on 06/08/2010Reaching the Animal Mind (RTAM) came out exactly a year ago, in June of 2009. And wow, what a year it’s been!
On My Mind: It's Not What You Do. It's How You Do It.
By Karen Pryor on 05/18/2010It’s a sunny spring afternoon in New England at the annual meIt’s a sunny spring afternoon in New England at the annual meeting of a group of animal behaviorists. I’m sitting on a folding chair alongside a small corral, watching some demonstrations with horses. My friend Tim Sullivan, curator of behavioral husbandry at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, is sitting on my left.eting of a group of animal behaviorists.
