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Although having sex in the stacks of Widener has become legendary amongst students, for those who don't get any, scouring the stacks in search of porn is the chosen alternative. Rumor has it that many get their kicks in "The X-Cage," a hush-hush collection of pornographic picturebooks tucked away in Widener's farthest reaches...
...animal rights wacko," if you join in the hilarity of Rush Limbaugh, who used to introduce items about people like Wise by playing "Born Free," with ricocheting gunfire and wild animal squawks in the background. Limbaugh should get a kick out of Wise's new book, called "Rattling the Cage," which Jane Goodall, in the preface, declares to be the "animals' Magna Carta...
...Wise is serious about the work and, the more you think about it, reasonable. "Rattling the Cage" is by turns eloquent, funny and pedantically legalistic, dense with the sometimes bizarre case law of humans and animals. Wise explores the legal basis for granting certain common law protections and rights (not all, of course) to certain nonhuman animals -- only a few, really, notably the remarkably intelligent, accomplished and endangered chimpanzees...
...apprenticed to a shaman of the Kamayura tribe) and in rain-forest conservation. He knew he wanted to do fieldwork when he studied primates in Holland. There Van Roosmalen clashed with his university professors over the value of observing lab monkeys. "It was like putting a child in a cage and drawing conclusions about all Homo sapiens," he huffs...
...like hamsters, especially bureaucratic people. These films leave traces of our scurry in the tunnels of pressure-board, fiberglass and Sheetrock. Given time, these things become the proverbial cardboard tube at the end of a roll of toilet paper, chewed to shreds and scattered around the bottom of the cage...