Category Archives: General
Registration still open for course in Groningen
Starting on Wednesday May 18, I will be giving a course of 5 lessons entitled Communicatie en taal bij dieren (Communication and language in animals) in the city of Groningen for the Seniorenacademie Groningen (HOVO). The registration for this course is … Continue reading
Filed under General, Lectures and courses
Marc Bekoff in The Netherlands
On Saturday April 2 and Sunday April 3 Marc Bekoff was in The Netherlands for a seminar. The ethologist Marc Bekoff is a former professor of Ecology en Evolutionairy Biology at the University of Colorado in Boulder and he has … Continue reading
Filed under Animal Communication, Animal Consciousness, Animal Ethics, General
Washoe yawning
This is a picture of the famous chimpanzee Washoe yawning while sitting in the outdoor area of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute (CHCI) of Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington, USA. The picture was taken one morning in Fall … Continue reading
Registration at Chamber of Commerce
Today I visited the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce (Kamer van Koophandel) and registered my company Esteban Rivas Productions. Its KvK number is 50222570. On the Services page of my blog you can read about the activities of my company. I … Continue reading
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Aids Memorial Day 2010
Yesterday it was Aids Memorial Day and in Amsterdam people gathered in the Dominicus Church to commemorate those who died of aids. There were several hundred people, gay, straight, transgender, from all kinds of cultures and nationalities. For the first … Continue reading
My work cited in an article that advocates neuroscientific research with great apes
I am busy making a separate page on my blog to discuss how my work with the signing apes has been cited and quoted in publications by others. The first article of that page I discuss here in this post. … Continue reading
My articles on Animal Consciousness now online
Yesterday I scanned all my publications about animal consciousness and uploaded them to my profile on Academia.edu. In the 1990s I published several articles on the subject together with my brother Titus Rivas. In these articles we advocate the analogy … Continue reading
Filed under Animal Consciousness, General, Publications
Kiss In at the Homomonument
Last Monday, the 17th of May, it was International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO). This is often celebrated by holding a kiss in to show our pride and to demand our rightful and visible place in society without having … Continue reading
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My chapter on Animal Ethics now online
In 1997 I edited a book about animal consciousness and animal ethics, together with my co-editors Marcel Dol, Kasanmoentalib, Susanne Lijmbach and Ruud van den Bos. We gave it the title Animal consciousness and animal ethics. Perspectives from the Netherlands, … Continue reading
Tatu signing BLACK
These are several pictures of Tatu signing BLACK, which I took in 1993 and 1995 during my visits to the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute of Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington State. The female chimpanzee Tatu was part of … Continue reading
Filed under General, Language research with animals
