Last Exit Magazine « #6 Animals

The Case of the Painted Turtles

How some red-eared sliders made it from the swamps of the deep South to the middle of the biggest park in the densest city in America.

By Bradley Hope

Taken Flight

Falcons whose migration patterns once crossed continents now travel by airplane. And like everyone else in the security line, they must present their passports.

By Keach Hagey

Artisans of a kind of realized life-after-death, taxidermists are perpetually at work on an elegy: for the animal, for the natural world, and for a craft threatened by economic instability. Photos by Kramer O’Neill.

By Mary Austin Speaker

Guilty Acts

We stopped by the Black & White Gallery in New York to check out the opening reception for artist Tamara Kostianovsky’s solo debut, Actus Reus.

By Paul Menchaca

Dogs in Bed

In most of the world, dogs are considered filthy animals who aren’t allowed in the house. Yet sharing your bed with your canine is a common, if rarely reported, phenomenon in the United States — despite the havoc it can wreak on your sleeping patterns and sex life. With photos by Keelin Daly.

By Michael Dinan