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in his role as duke of cornwall in fact he is visiting one as i write perhaps he would care to bring the dartmoor hill pony under his protection as one of them by which i do not mean the sensitive selection of royal patronage between rival charities or political interventions or even public corrections of bureaucratic crudeness instead the minor addition of the distinguishing words conservation and agricultural before the phrase grazing units to denote horses as a different class to sheep and cattle suggested to natural england by dartmoor s largest landowner the duchy of cornwall preventing this unwarranted cull with the stroke of a pen for without such a royal intervention britain in its infinite managerial wisdom may now be in the process of destroying a most ancient and indigenous upland horse population and not because anyone hates them but because the system cannot distinguish between a sheep a cow and a living fragment of historical ecology please do click through to the original article with free registration online here as clicks today will save the wild ponies tomorrow https spectator com article how the king can help save dartmoors ponies written by alexander fiske harrison alexander fiske harrison is presently writing the children of wolves how men and dogs were forged in the land of ice posted in uncategorized leave a reply my latest article in the spectator desmond morris was a master of provocative truths posted on may 1 2026 by fiskeharrison reply my latest article in the spectator and another one quoting me in the same issue alexander fiske harrison desmond morris was a master of provocative truths 25 april 2026 article as published online here when the recently deceased zoologist desmond morris chose the title for his 1967 book the naked ape that would make his name one wonders if he didn t look back at the last book of popular science in the field of biology charles darwin s 1871 the descent of man scandalised victorian society by claiming that humans are descended from apes morris seemingly decided to go that one step further and claim that we still are apes just hairless ones morris was a master of provocative truths he enjoyed generating pseudo scandal by extrapolating from known scientific facts towards possible implications in realms which were difficult to stomach even in the swinging sixties he put forward the idea for example that women s lips emphasised with rouge were a form of signalling mimicry of their genital lips the naked ape indeed just as their breasts were meant to mimic the buttocks the usual view for our primate ancestors given their preferred sexual positions it was actually his next book expanding on that topic manwatching which caught my own teenage interest in the other subject that sells just as well as sex violence morris pointed out that a man in an argument with a flushed face has all his blood in his skin whereas a man with a pale face has all his blood in his muscles and therefore is far more likely to strike first morris s originality lay in altering how people perceived the human animal it was dramatic inferences from observations like this that led me to biology as an undergraduate at morris s alma mater oxford it was there in the tinbergen building which housed the then faculty of zoology that i met him thirty years ago these inferences continue to inform my work today including my research on the interaction and co evolution between humans and wolves and their domesticated descendant the dog for my book the children of wolves how men and dogs were forged in the land of ice sex and violence are great selling points but the true controversy that morris caused was at a far deeper level he lobbed the grenade of hard natural science animal behaviour into the soft social scientific soup of the then dominant schools of psychology post freudian analysis and californian self affirming therapy morris s originality lay in altering how people civilian and scientist alike perceived the human animal he opened the door to other scientists who were not so much noted for their empirical research as the conceptual shifts they caused like his near contemporary and friend at oxford richard dawkins whose the selfish gene of 1976 shifted the paradigm from the communitarian sociobiology of e o wilson and others back to the harsh darwinian reality interestingly both came from the tutelage of one of the fathers of animal behaviour niko tinbergen who argued for developed behaviours as a more predominant cause of behaviour as opposed to konrad lorenz s view of genetically determined instinct it is no coincidence that these giants of biology who met in 1936 endured very different wars the developmentally biased dutchman as a prisoner of the nazis the genetically slanted austrian as a card carrying member of the party even though they jointly took the nobel in 1973 the same year morris went to work with tinbergen he did not however begin as a scientist but as an artist in 1950 at the age of 22 morris debuted as a painter alongside one of the fathers of surrealism joan miró he would later befriend salvador dalí as well and only later did he turn to zoology morris s first book was the biology of art in 1962 it was there that he posited that the urge to represent oneself artistically common to all primates came from the urge to make a mark on the world this led to his painting work with congo the chimpanzee courtesy of morris congo had his own exhibition in 1957 at london s institute of contemporary arts it was reading about this that led to my own time with the bonobo kanzi and his sister panbanisha at georgia state university s ape language research centre in 2001 there i saw the limits of the strict academic peer reviewed scientific method that one can abandon in popular science the biggest problem in dealing with great apes who have five times the functional upper body strength of a human of the same weight is getting them to submit to controlled study asking kanzi time after time through headphones to identify which picture was of an apple rather than an orange eventually led to him understandably losing his patience he would tear the headphones off break them in half and then flip a 200lb surgical steel table through the air with one hand panbanisha a bonobo with her eldest son nyota photo alexander fiske harrison 2001 what was far more interesting to me and apparently scientifically irrelevant was what he would do when he was given a full head mask of a gorilla the natural enemy of bonobos in the wild he would put it over his own head and chase panbanisha around the laboratory at first you could see her mock fear as she ran from her brother but that faux panic as with a human child began to degrade into true fear at that point kanzi stopped and took off the mask to reassure her it was still him then he handed her the mask which she put on and they began the game of chase again in the opposite direction that pretence of the bonobos perceiving their sibling as another dangerous species is far more important than whether they could reliably identify 100 pictures or 101 use 300 symbols or 301 that right there is the suspension of disbelief the origin of drama itself it is that realm of scientific outlay into the wider world of human existence that speculation beyond what academic authority will allow that morris opened the door to and many others including myself have continued to pass through combining art and science license and scholarship to speculate in ways that continue to fascinate us to this day p s it was nice to see on the same weekend as the above article of mine appeared in the spectator my words on a very different part of the animal world quoted in another article online in full here for the six days in april the maestranza ring in seville is the centre of the bullfighting world during one of the traditional corrida spain s greatest living matador jose antonio morante made a mistake local press described un exceso de confianza suddenly he found himself with the bull at his back charging and was gored at the top of his thigh suffering injuries so eye watering that they made international news one of his colleagues roca rey was also hospitalised several days later with a severe injury to his right leg morante described the immense pain of the incident sport has a complex relationship with danger the appeal to the audience is straightforward some are agonised or repulsed by introducing physical danger into something as ephemeral as sport but for the rest there is more riding on the outcome of dangerous pursuits ther is more tension to the proceedings and a greater rush at their conclusion bullfighting enthusiasts may bristle at this the leading english language chronicler alexander fiske harrison does not consider bullfighting a sport as no one keeps score and there is no way for anyone or anything to win he prefers to think of it as a category of performance art whose success is determined by how much the audience has been emotionally moved posted in uncategorized leave a reply the daily mail on alexander fiske harrison camille natta with david yarrow s book on wolves posted on november 22 2025 by fiskeharrison reply daily mail 22 november 2025 the smart set s talking about daredevil relights old flame after parting from polo star once hailed as the most bad ass old etonian ever daredevil author alexander fiske harrison has taken fright at matrimony i hear that the belgravia born former bullfighter 49 has ended his engagement to top austrian polo player klarina pichler 44 and rekindled a romance that began in the quads of oxford university i can confirm that klarina and i parted ways at the beginning of this year with great sadness and mutual respect xander tells me i have finally washed the blood of bullfighting from my hands and pivoted back to my original role as conservation biologist from my time at oxford he is now going out with a girlfriend from his university days the french film actress camille natta 48 next week we set off reunited like odysseus and penelope says xander who s writing a book with camille as photographer the children of wolves how dogs and humans were forged in the land of ice alongside the great david yarrow he previously went out with lord brocket s model daughter the hon antalya nall cain who later became princess of prussia 13 years his junior author s note ms natta later left the project and returned to los angeles and her family new york magazine vulture i excuse myself to use the restroom when i return winters is deep in conversation with the man sitting next to us a british writer named alexander fiske harrison who is working on a book about wolves the children of wolves on the walk up we had started talking about relationships there were a couple of times that winters had come close to settling down but it had never happened it was no one s fault he said he supposed it was never too late to have children but he didn t really want to be a 70 year old dude with a little kid now a fuller story emerges one of winters s exes had remained in his life but they d had a falling out he despaired of ever seeing her again outside the bar alexander presses him did you do the full back down there are two ways to apologize one way is i m really sorry if what i did offended you and the other way is i m very sorry among the men around him opinions vary on what winters should do alexander shares his own tale of romantic turmoil see above then for the next 15 minutes or so winters and i go silent as he entertains us with accounts of interviewing bullfighters in spain posted in uncategorized leave a reply britain s leading bullfighter in the times posted on november 2 2025 by fiskeharrison reply the times july 13 2024 diary patrick kidd a lesson in cold blood alexander fiske harrison britain s leading bullfighter is inspired by men who keep their upper lip starched he writes in boisdale life that his hero is charles upham twice winner of the victoria cross in 1943 upham attempted a bold daylight escape from a prisoner of war camp only to get caught on the barbed wire a nazi corporal put a loaded pistol to his head but upham reminded him that it was only legal to shoot a pow while escaping since he clearly could not move he should be spared he then lit a cigarette and said and i refuse to be shot by a bloody corporal bring an officer upham lived for another 51 years posted in uncategorized tagged alexander fiske harrison boisdale life courage the times victoria cross leave a reply boisdale life editor s lunch awards 2024 davidoff bon viveur of the year alexander fiske harrison posted on november 1 2025 by fiskeharrison reply introduced by h m the queen s son tom parker bowles natasha hamilton formerly of the band atomic kitten and far right william sitwell restaurant critic for the daily telegraph host as roy sommer managing director of davidoff cigars presents the davidoff bon viveur of the year award to alexander fiske harrison for his article courage best on the left is afh s old friend whom he had not seen since 1991 and who recently left the british army after 23 years including two decades in the 22 sas and with whom afh is now working on new project more which later photo jules annan click on image for pdf courage best alexander fiske harrison britain s only bullfighter and veteran bull runner pays homage to british stoicism and bravery the most laconic tale of british bravery in combat is arguably lord uxbridge s sang froid remark after being struck by cannon shot at the battle of waterloo my god sir i ve lost my leg to which the duke of wellington replied yes sir so you have one doesn t need to be a kenneth tynan to recognise this as a performance even if made unconsciously with understatement used to say infinitely more than the words themselves it does not make much difference if the story is apocryphal the mere fact that the story has survived in popular consciousness in this form tells us exactly what the british perceive their own particular brand of bravery to be it is also hardly surprising then that i grew up with the charge of the light brigade as my model as it was to the british army indeed it is from the cannon captured that day that most of the victoria cross medals are cast more of the vc later compare this form of courage with a tale from my adopted country of spain in 1936 during the spanish civil war the medieval alcázar fortress of toledo was under siege to little effect when the attackers captured the son of the colonel of the garrison they reconnected the severed telephone lines and summoned the colonel to the parapets so he could watch as his son was handed the telephone to tell him that he would be executed unless the fortification surrendered the colonel told his son that he knew what to do father and son saluted one another the son turned and told his captor to shoot him which he duly did before he turned to salute the father...