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• Zoologist Arik Kershenbaum: ‘We all want to know whether animals talk and what they’re saying’

  21-01-2024 15:00
  
  The zoologist on observing animal communication in the wild, why dolphins give one another names, and the high likelihood that humans could converse with aliensDr Arik Kershenbaum is a zoologist at Cambridge University who specialises in animal communication, studying wolves, gibbons and dolphins to “understand more not just about their ecology and conservation, but also about the evolution of our own language”. His first book, The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy, which specula
  
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• Blood on Your Hands review – abattoir drama never gets to the meat of the issue

  21-01-2024 13:12
  
  Southwark Playhouse, London
  Grace Joy Howarth’s play about the lives of two slaughterhouse workers addresses many things – the ethics of eating animals, the situation in Ukraine, zero-hours contracts – but fails to cohereTwo men meet in an abattoir and become friends, while the world outside is in tumult. Russia is rounding on Ukraine and stands on the brink of war. Closer to home, animal rights activists round on the men, as they punch in for another day of grimy, factory floo
  
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