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Record W6948853873 · doi:10.52537/humanimalia.15999

The Spanish Horse and the Thunder Drum

2025· article· en· W6948853873 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueHumanimalia · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicBiological Activity of Diterpenoids and Biflavonoids
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Northern British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAfterlifeThunderSubject (documents)DismembermentBiographyIdentity (music)

Abstract

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Life for many horses at the turn of the nineteenth century was short and subject to objectification before and after death. However, the life and afterlife of one horse at Astley’s Amphitheatre, the Spanish Horse, resisted the usual loss of identity animal death often brings. In this article I first provide a biography of the Spanish Horse and then question his afterlife as a theatrical thunder drum. In doing so, I think about the nature of taxidermy, memorial, and the usual binary of subject/object inherent within fragmented animal bodies. As part of this process, I explore the thunder drum/Spanish Horse with the aid of ecofeminism, philosophies of taxidermy, and material feminist thought, and I argue that the afterlife of the Spanish Horse as a thunder drum was one of loving remembrance that did not erase the animal self within the material object. Instead, I suggest, the preservation of the Spanish Horse’s skin after death enabled his ongoing participation and agential voice within the Amphitheatre, while elevating him above other animals therein.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.783
Threshold uncertainty score0.353

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.239
Teacher spread0.233 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it