Anthrozoology: Embracing Co-Existence in the Anthropocene

Preface Ecological Bifurcations The Vernadsky Presumption Biological Proliferations Ecological Failure or Amelioration Chapter 1: The Making of the Anthropocene The Making of the Anthropocene Relational Values and Vicissitudes Rewilding The Others Pain and Pleasure Grey Tonalities Some Aspects of Due Diligence Data Sets and Dialectic Ontologies Melancholic Deliberations Mind in the Forest Ecological Enigma Codes Sentience and Accelerated Evolution Primate Biometrics and Other Biological Dualisms Quantum Sapience Darwin's Umbrella Differential Equivalencies The Ontology of Mutualism Chapter 2: Our Conquest of Co-Evolution? Counter-Collaborative Intuitions The Zoological Gaze Biorealism, Species Extinctions and Carrying Capacity The Sorites "Paradox of the Heap" in a World of Fuzzy Logic Contradictory Breaking Points The Metabolic Truths of Biological De-Constructions The Blue Whale Question? Post-Holocene Histories Chapter 3: The Metaphysics of Extinction An Overview of Ceballos, Ehrlich and Ehrlich Existential Animals/Plants at Ground Zero and the Rewilding Movement Resolving Paradox? 510 Billion Square Meters of the Earth's Surface Reproachable Pathways The Genus Sus What Constitutes Being Intelligent and is that Even a Relevant Word? Intelligence Versus Sustainability and Compassion Everything That is a Person Living Ghosts from the Middle Miocene: Co-Habitation With the Most Iconic Carnivores in North America Bio-Etymologies Chapter 4: The Conative Spectrum of Other Species Fagan Bonds Quantum Anthrozoology The Many Glitches of Fairyland Zoology Flawed Algorithms and Interpolations Epiphanies at the Boundary Level Imagination that Translates into Biological Success The Pigeon Test Animal Intelligence that Challenges Our Own The Semiosphere The Disambiguation of Ethics Ecological Communion Comparative Sentience and Sapience A Menage a Trois in the Sea of Cortez Chapter 5: Arcadian Connections Jungles on an Existential Planet Art as Interspecies Immanence Of Birds and Dreams and Flannery O'Connor Chapter 6: The "Other Minds" Challenge Jain Bioinformatics Himsa, Violence Towards The Others Conflicted Advocacy: When Poetry and Song Fails to Impress State Sanctioned Torture of the Innocents Variable Data Sets DNA and BioCommunications Ignoring or Embracing the BioCommunicative Challenges? Chapter 7: A Prolegomena of Human Conscience Bambi and Beyond Reverence for the Individual Small-World-Ness Combinative Linguistic Capacities Research Dialectics and Triage During Real-Time Crises "Qualia" Beneath Seemingly Scientific Chaos The Logic Trap The Relativity of Neurons Measuring Survival Within the Context of Intelligence Chapter 8: Experiential, Empirical and Disturbing Anthrozoologies Interspecies Altruisms Ecological Dichotomies Chapter 9: Epiphanies of the Biosemiosphere Our Embrace of Life Chapter 10: Evolutionary Biographies and the Enigma of the "Other" Beyond Solitude An Overview of 'Readings In Zoosemiotics' Chapter 11: A North American Family - The Ecologies of Translation Redressing the Anthropocene Through Interspecies Communication Transcending Taxonomy The Brilliance of Songbirds The Parrots A Brief History of Biophilia A California Fanfare: And Josie at the Heart of it All Josie's Story Gallus gallus and Meleagris gallopavo Conversations With Josie Post-Scientific Josie Hominid and Psittacine Semiospheres Of Dinosaurs and Other Memories Expanding Contexts to Comport With Reality Feathers Fashioned of Hope A Personal Genealogy The Fool's Paradise Josie's Final Narrative The Futility of Comparisons The Crisis of One Plus One Josie's Final Act of Heroism Chapter 12: Coda The Silence of Järvenpää