This question ties into how elephants maintain “stability” (a fraught term in science). Stability is clearly of great importance to giant land animals following “the bigger you are, the harder you fall” pri
what might be called theHoratia Algerstory, is very common in nineteenth-century fiction, especially fiction written by women. This heroine does not have to begin in absolute poverty—evenCinderella’sfamily must have been middle-class or her stepsisters wouldn’t have been able to go to...