not of this world

“Normally,” says Geir Söli with a smile, “natural history museums just show pretty boring things: rocks, stuffed birds and the like.” Not so with the Norwegian zoologist’s latest project.

i can’t help but think once again how Aristotle’s account of nature as always or for the most part is the most helpful modern missing link with regards to such psuedo reasoning, not to mention that just because an animal does something doesn’t mean it should be held up as a model befitting human behavior. this particular article actually does bring in Aristotle, but only to note his observations of same sex hyena behavior. i guess his actual account of nature just isn’t relative to the day’s agenda.
i’m not familiar with that particular observation in the works of Aristotle, but i think it’s of some relevance that it isn’t found in the ethics…