Creatures of the Earth and the Mind

Ten charming and poignant essays and fictional stories mostly about animal life, starting with an encounter with Lord Ganesh the elephant god, moving on to a duck,a beaver, turkeys and vultures, seventeen-year locusts, various pet dogs and cats, and ending with a provocative essay in which the author argues that the latest stage in the theory of biological evolutionary development concerns the "memes" of the human mind.