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Katy Perry – Roar (Official)
Tarzan has nothing on legendary Jane
By Nadia Eldemerdash
The renowned primatologist’s undying love for chimpanzees meant she was destined to work with the animals
Read More…How Tarzan created Jane Goodall and how Goodall then repaid the favor
Commentary by Shawn Thompson, The Ethical Ape column on September 02, 2013. MongBay news.
The woman we know as Jane Goodall invites us to consider that she was created by Tarzan of the Apes.
We should take Jane Goodall seriously when she says that she was influenced by the fictional ape man and that as a child set on a path in life by him to go to Africa to work with wild animals.
And yet the influence Goodall finds in Tarzan likely goes deeper, anticipating the defiance of science and morality that allowed Goodall to become the remarkable scientist and a human being that she is. This connection also suggests a crucial, radical element of morality, that it depends ultimately on an act of the imagination.
What evidence is there for this?
Read More…Introducing Pellucidar: The World at the Earth’s Core
Another New Comic Strip Launch
When David Innes and Abner Perry build a revolutionary mining machine, their plan is to uncover vast mineral deposits far beneath the surface of the earth. But, on the “Iron Mole’s” first trip, they find themselves hurtling toward the center of the earth where death from the Earth’s molten mass of white-hot magma seems certain.
Instead, what Innes and Perry discover is that the earth’s crust is only 500 miles thick with an inner surface — and its inhabited! In Pellucidar, dinosaurs roam through jungles and saber-toothed tigers hunt mastodon and mammoth. A tiny sun, the molten core of the Earth, hangs in the center of the heavens, shedding perpetual daylight upon Pellucidar. Because the sun never sets, it is always “now” and there is no such thing as time. Stranger still, because Pellucidar rests on the inner side of the Earth’s crust, there is no horizon. The land curves upwards, as if you were standing on the inside of a gigantic bowl.
Humans dwell in Pellucidar — stone-age men and women who must fight to survive in this savage world. Even worse these humans have been made slaves of the Mahars, a race of intelligent but sinister reptiles who look upon humans as nothing more than beasts of burden or tasty snacks in one of their ghoulish ceremonies.
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Can David Innes and Abner Perry escape capture? Can they free humanity from the Mahar tyranny? And when David meets Dian the Beautiful who becomes his one true love, what struggles must he overcome before he can claim her as his own. And together, what adventures await them on Pellucidar?
Written by Chuck Dixon with years of experience in the graphic novel field and with Tom Lyle as the artist, this will be an entertaining addition to our Edgar Rice Burroughs Online Comic Strip complex. Just $1.99 per month. See free samples of all the strips and subscribe at http://edgarriceburroughs.com/comics .
TARZAN OF THE APES (TM) by Roy Thomas and Tom Grindberg
CARSON OF VENUS (TM) by Martin Powell, Thomas Floyd, and Diana Leto
THE ETERNAL SAVAGE (TM) by Martin Powell and Steven E. Gordon
THE WAR CHIEF(TM) by Martin Powell and Nik Poliwko
THE CAVE GIRL (TM) by Martin Powell and Diana Leto (A Bi-Weekly)
PELLUCIDAR (TM) by Chuck Dixion and Tom Lyle
AND THERE ARE MORE TO COME!
Elephants take revenge on village after herd member is struck by train
A herd of wild elephants near the Muthanga wild life sanctuary at Muthanga in Kerala state, India. (AP Photo)It’s said that elephants never forget. Apparently it’s especially true when a herd suffers a loss.
Last week near the village of Matari in eastern India, a train struck and killed an elephant — an accident that is unfortunately commonplace in that region.
The response by the herd is more surprising.
Read More…“The Cave Girl” Diana Leto Video Blog, Volume 1
The Cave Girl, Another New Comic Strip Launch
When money is no problem, people go on a south seas voyage. But the sea can be full of the unexpected. And if you’re unlucky enough to be swept overboard during a storm, your future is in others’ hands. This is what happened to Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones, a blue-booded mama’s-boy who’s bookish education did not prepare him to cope with the jungle island that was to become his new home.
Waldo is terrified when he encounters primitive, violent, men-ape-like throwbacks from mankind’s evolutionary history. He runs from them but reaches a dead end! He turns and successfully makes a stand – astonishing himself as well as the brutes. He then meets a beautiful girl, Nadara, also on the run from them. In an uncharacteristic gesture, Waldo saves her from the grasp of an ape-man and they make their escape. Waldo is shocked that she believes him a hero, mistaking his frightened screams for war cries. She calls him Thandar, meaning the brave one.
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Nadara teaches Waldo her language, how to swim, how to fish, and basic woodcraft. Waldo begins to realize how little he really knows about survival. Nadara warns him that as a newcomer to the tribe he must fight the strongest men, who have killed many. When they reach her home village, he is horrified to see that despite her appearance, her tribe seems to be cavemen from the paleolithic era, not much better than the brutes he fought earlier. In order to avoid death at the hands of the tribal bullies, he vanishes.
For six months, Waldo makes weapons and trains himself for battle. He finds himself growing healthier due to the constant physical demands of primitive living. And, Waldo realizes he has a growing love for Nadara. Even when a ship arrives he declines to leave. Waldo searches for Nadara again but she and her tribe are gone – but where? What new adventures will he encounter as he searches for her? And if Waldo finds her, will his noble bloodline meld with her primitive upbringing?
Join the excitement. Start reading now at www.edgarriceburroughs.com/comics! For just $1.99 per month you will have access to all these fabulous new weekly comic strips by terrific writers and artists:
TARZAN OF THE APES (TM) by Roy Thomas and Tom Grindberg
CARSON OF VENUS (TM) by Martin Powell, Thomas Floyd, and Diana Leto
THE ETERNAL SAVAGE (TM) by Martin Powell and Steven E. Gordon
THE WAR CHIEF(TM) by Martin Powell and Nik Poliwko
THE CAVE GIRL (TM) by Martin Powell and Diana Leto (A Bi-Weekly)
AND THERE ARE MORE TO COME!