One more reason writers could also be drawn to anthropomorphized animals is for his or her absurdity. As soon as readers settle for the truth of speaking animals, what else will they purchase into? In Matt Phelan’s up-tempo “The Sheep, the Rooster, and the Duck,” the reply is that this:
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The Runty Prehistoric Mammals That Outlasted the Dinosaurs
BEASTS BEFORE USThe Untold Story of Mammal Origins and EvolutionBy Elsa Panciroli Richard Owen loathed small mammals, calling them “ratlike, shrewlike forms of the most stupid and unintelligent order of sucklers.” That wouldn’t have mattered if Owen weren’t one of the most powerful scientists of the Victorian era. A leading