The Sunday Read: ‘Why We Take Animal Voyages’

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🗓️ 30 October 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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For Sam Anderson, a staff writer, traveling with animals can lead to enlightening experience. In this essay for The New York Times Magazine, Mr. Anderson explores what he has learned from a lifetime of voyaging with animals, and what it means to connect with another creature: bridging spiritual, physical and even temporal distances, and reaching into “something like evolutionary time.” “An animal voyage,” Mr. Anderson writes, “is special because it requires us to make many journeys all at once.”

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Sam Anderson.
0:06.5	I'm a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine.
0:10.0	I live up in the Hudson Valley, North of New York City, with my family and my two very
0:15.6	hairy dogs, Walnut and Pistachio.
0:19.8	I'm really lucky I get to follow my interests, and that means that I have written a good amount
0:25.6	over the years about animals.
0:28.1	I've written essays about the last two northern white rhinos in Kenya.
0:32.9	I've written about why we watch animal videos online.
0:38.3	So the magazine does an annual voyages issue.
0:41.8	It's devoted to travel, and we always get these spectacular photo essays from places all
0:47.2	over the world.
0:48.7	And this year was a little different than usual.
0:51.2	We decided to focus on animal voyages.
0:54.8	We asked some photographers for kind of dream trips that they'd always wanted to take.
1:01.2	That involved animals.
1:03.2	Six photographers got sent all over the world.
1:06.2	They went to Iceland, South Korea, French Guiana, Bolivia, Ghana, and to some zoos in the
1:13.7	United States.
1:15.4	And because I love animals, I was roped into helping design the issue.
1:21.0	I'll be reading the introduction that I wrote for the issue, which is about why we take animal
1:26.1	voyages.
1:27.8	And if you're listening to this, go find an animal to pet.
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