scholarly journals Learned Fable, Living World: Artistry, Knowledge and Attention to Nature in Two Aesopic Paintings by Joannes Fyt

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Balfe
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Living World ◽  
Notable Feature ◽  
Poultry Birds ◽  
And Behaviors

Now better known as a hunting painter, the Antwerp animal specialist Joannes Fyt (1611–1661) also produced several depictions of Aesopic fables. A notable feature of Fyt’s fables is their attentiveness to the appearances and behaviors of animals and how they inhabit their environment. Focusing on two paintings by Fyt featuring poultry birds, this essay uses period fable books, a key discussion of fable by Erasmus, and zoopoetic theory to explore how these works address both the allegorical realm of fable and a tangible living world that was increasingly coming under investigation from natural history and related modes of inquiry.

scholarly journals Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history / by the Rev. J.G. Wood.

1898 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. Wood ◽  
Alfred Edmund Brehm ◽  
Joseph B. Holder ◽  
Louis Prang ◽  
J. G. Wood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Living World

Observation of Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens) in Choyatar, Ilam, East Nepal

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 96-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. K. Chalise
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Protected Species ◽  
Short Survey ◽  
Community Behavior ◽  
Red Panda ◽  
Ailurus Fulgens ◽  
And Behaviors

A short survey of Red Panda was conducted in Choyatar Community forest of Ilam district, East Nepal. A pair of pandas was observed and behaviors were recorded. It is significant in Nepalese perspective that a protected species was recorded outside the protected area and relatively better natural habitat. Keywords:  Community;  Behavior; Protected species; Natural habitat.  Journal of Natural History MuseumVol. 24, 2009Page: 96-102 

On the Need to Interpret Insects: An Always Small but Gargantuan Opportunity

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
Nathan J. Shipley ◽  
Robert D. Bixler
Keyword(s):  
Invasive Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Pesticide Use ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Formative Experiences ◽  
Close Relatives

This position paper makes explicit what can be gained by increasing interpretive naturalists’ focus on interpreting insects and their close relatives, particularly in local and regional settings. Insects are widely loathed because a few species are highly irritating. Helping people become aware and observant of the overwhelming percentage of insects that stay hidden and are not bothersome, yet exhibit a wide range of intriguing shapes, adaptations, and behaviors can increase people's comfort in the outdoors. Environmental benefits include increased informal monitoring for invasive species and reduced irrational pesticide use. Understanding of how people are socialized into an interest in nature and natural history suggests a need for frequent and recurring experiences with nature over many years. Engaging with insects costs little and their ever-presence makes seeking these frequent formative experiences with nature readily available. Because interpretive naturalists interpret nature in situ, they are ideally skilled to facilitate human-insect experiences.

How is the moral stance related to the intentional stance and group thinking?

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannes Rakoczy
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Intentional Stance ◽  
Cognitive Capacities ◽  
Shared Intentionality ◽  
History Of ◽  
Group Thinking ◽  
Moral Stance

Abstract The natural history of our moral stance told here in this commentary reveals the close nexus of morality and basic social-cognitive capacities. Big mysteries about morality thus transform into smaller and more manageable ones. Here, I raise questions regarding the conceptual, ontogenetic, and evolutionary relations of the moral stance to the intentional and group stances and to shared intentionality.

On the assembly and structural modulation of lens fiber junctions

1984 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 110-113
Author(s):  
E.L. Benedetti ◽  
I. Dunia ◽  
Do Ngoc Lien ◽  
O. Vallon ◽  
D. Louvard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Weight ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Intercellular Junctions ◽  
Eye Lens ◽  
Membrane Domains ◽  
Functional Polymorphism ◽  
Lens Fiber ◽  
The Past ◽  
Structural Modulation ◽  
Biochemical Difference

In the eye lens emerging molecular and structural patterns apparently cohabit with the remnants of the past. The lens in a rather puzzling fashion sums up its own natural history and even transient steps of the differentiation are memorized. A prototype of this situation is well outlined by the study of the lenticular intercellular junctions. These membrane domains exhibit structural, biochemical and perhaps functional polymorphism reflecting throughout life the multiple steps of the differentiation of the epithelium into fibers and of the ageing process of the lenticular cells.The most striking biochemical difference between the membrane derived from the epithelium and from the fibers respectively, concerns the presence of the 26,000 molecular weight polypeptide (MP26) in the latter membranes.

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