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Creature Features
The Life and People sites offer a week of articles about many-splendored living things, some of them furry, all of them edible


We're here, we're queer, we're penguins The romantic story of Wendell and Cass, tuxedo-clad life partners, as told by their keeper.
By Suzy Hansen [03/08/02]


Loving animals to death From cannibalized kittens to feces-caked floors, animal hoarders have a funny way of saying "I love you."
By Chris Colin [03/08/02]

A boy named Rover What do you call the baby when all the good names have gone to the dogs?
By Amy Silverman [03/08/02]

Baked bat A recipe from Calvin Schwabe's "Unmentionable Cuisine."
[03/08/02]

Starling stew with olives A recipe from Calvin Schwabe's "Unmentionable Cuisine."
[03/08/02]


Ants for breakfast Tart and tangy, the wee Camponotus consobrinus gives me a lesson in world culture.
By Gary Presley [03/07/02]


"Jurassic Park," eat your heart out Ecological historian Tim Flannery describes the days of megafauna, when 13-ton elephants and shoulder-height armadillos clomped around among humans.
By Katharine Mieszkowski [03/07/02]

Red ant chutney A recipe from Calvin Schwabe's "Unmentionable Cuisine."
[03/07/02]

Sea urchin gonad purée A recipe from Calvin Schwabe's "Unmentionable Cuisine."
[03/07/02]


Hangin' with the 'tans in Borneo Deep in the Indonesian rain forest, our reporter braves tribal war to discover why orangutans may be driven to extinction by America's love for pool cues.
By Jennifer Hile [03/06/02]


Lynda Barry's World of Canines It's a love thang.
[03/06/02]

Roasted cockchafer grubs in paper A recipe from Calvin Schwabe's "Unmentionable Cuisine."
[03/06/02]

Pig's stomach and abalone A recipe from Calvin Schwabe's "Unmentionable Cuisine."
[03/06/02]


Outfoxed Wilde called fox hunting the "unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable." On the upside, it's got all the thrill of battle and only 25 percent of the injuries.
By Sally Eckhoff [03/05/02]


The existence of dog There is a huge difference between me and my son, something more significant than gender.
By Elena Sigman [03/05/02]

Deep-fried horse meat A recipe from Calvin Schwabe's "Unmentionable Cuisine."
[03/05/02]

Steamed cat and chicken A recipe from Calvin Schwabe's "Unmentionable Cuisine."
[03/05/02]


On the prowl with the secret bomb dogs Ruff life? These dogs love their duties!
By Amy Standen [03/04/02]


A tail of treachery Everywhere I go, the rodents find me.
By Erika Raskin [03/04/02]

Grilled rat Bordeaux-style A recipe from Calvin Schwabe's "Unmentionable Cuisine."
[03/04/02]

Coconut cream marinated dog on skewers A recipe from Calvin Schwabe's "Unmentionable Cuisine."
[03/04/02]


An introduction The Life and People sites offer a week of articles about many-splendored living things, some of them furry, all of them edible.
By Douglas Cruickshank and Jennifer Foote Sweeney [03/04/02]