Near. Far.

The works of humankind get farther away: Voyager I is about to leave our star system and deliver its golden-record phonographic message into the gaping mouth of the giant space walrus that almost certainly waits beyond the heliopause to devour all satellites and spacecraft tossed out on the solar winds like fish from a marine biologist.

Animals in South Africa get closer: Clover the Rhino and Bok-Bok (it means “goat-goat”) have built a friendship on the hard-headed rapport of cranial pugilism that only surly horned mammals, Scotsmen and gladiatorial robots can truly understand. Alas, like all such friendships, it is sure to end sadly with a confused and lonely goat.