Animal Wild

Tag: Animal welfare.

  • Falcons and falconry

    Falcons and falconry

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    Julian Rota
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    This image of the Peregrine Falcon (Falco pergerinus), famously the fastest animal on the planet, is taken from John Gould’s magnificent The Birds of Great Britain, published in twenty-five parts, usually sumptuously bound in five folio volumes, between 1862 and 1873. Copies on the market today are priced between £60,000 and over £200,000. The copy…

  • Charlotte Dujardin again

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    Julian Rota
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    This post is actually to do with dressage generally. I have been reading a lot of Facebook posts, particularly those of “Milestone Equestrian”, a Canadian horse training business. From the nature of my interests, I would have expected to have seen more from animal rights proponents, but what I have actually been seeing is a…