Walton Ford and the power of history and art to think the revolution

This is just a placeholder to look more at Walton Ford's work! He is thinking of animal-human conflict and conflating the real and the fabulous, natural history and myth. Such is the work of a revolutionary!

Why are animals attacking?

Bookmarking for later:
Nice reflection on the pressures put upon nature by human cultural demands upon the planet
http://www.gq.com/story/john-jeremiah-sullivan-violence-lambs-future-human-race 

Sealions... reclaiming the sea

"One moment the US fishing enthusiast was posing triumphantly with his prized catch — the next, a hungry sea lion was dragging him underwater to what he feared would be his certain death."

"So many times, you see videos of cute seals, sea lions, but I'm sharing what happened to me because I want parents to realize these are wild aggressive animals that can take you down."

Killer Rabbits

Medieval documentation of the animals in revolt!

Useful details as to why
As Christianity took hold in western Europe, hares and rabbits, so firmly associated with the Goddess, came to be seen in a less favorable light — viewed suspiciously as the familiars of witches, or as witches themselves in animal form. Numerous folk tales tell of men led astray by hares who are really witches in disguise, or of old women revealed as witches when they are wounded in their animal shape. In one well–known story from Dartmoor, a mighty hunter named Bowerman disturbed a coven of witches practicing their rites, and so one young witch determined to take revenge upon the man. She shape–shifted into a hare, led Bowerman through a deadly bog, then turned the hunter and his hounds into piles of stones, which can still be seen today. (The stone formations are known by the names Hound Tor and Bowerman’s Nose.)

From the 11th to the 13th Centuries, rabbits became reviled for their pagan connections to sexuality, easy fertility, and as the important women's religious symbol: the moon. A carved stone, southern portal of Chartres Cathedral shows a lewd, laughing rabbit-man tempting and carrying off a chaste young woman. An 11th century Latin text catalogues ominous and frightening sights including a sea dragon, a Viking ship, and a rabbit.

Rogue Owl Terrorizes a dutch suburb

"Dubbed the 'terror owl' by residents of Purmerend, north of Amsterdam, the aggressive European eagle owl is suspected of more than 50 attacks on humans, swooping silently from above and leaving many of its victims bloody and bruised."
"Many people were afraid to go out of their homes."