![]() ![]() And both expose the permeability of the species barrier which allegedly separates humans from other animals (Durrell 1959 Haraway 2003). Both these authors, in different ways, underline the close, family and friend-like relationships that can exist between human beings and the animals who share their domestic space. In similar fashion, Donna Haraway, in her Companion Species Manifesto, deconstructs the binary which separates nature and culture, eliding them as natureculture and discussing the joy of ‘training’ her four-legged friend or, more accurately, learning with her how to create an effective human-animal partnership for competition agility. The title of this chapter, which is the title of an autobiographical account of an animal-filled childhood on Corfu by the naturalist Gerald Durrell, gives a family-like character to animals and an animal-like character to the idea of family - it ignores the distinction between social and natural, human and animal. ![]()
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