Animals
- Calico butterfly, a genus of brush-footed butterflies commonly called the Crackers, Calicoes, or Clicks
- Calico cat, a domestic cat with the common three- or four-colored coat pattern calico (a.k.a. tortoiseshell-and-white)
- Calico goldfish, goldfish that have a type of metallic and transparent scales
- Calico grouper, a species of fish found in Bermuda and the United States
- Calico Pennant, a dragonfly found in North America
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“For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut [animals] up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph.... “Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?””
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“About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)