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Pests : how humans create animal villains

Brookshire, Bethany author

2022

Overview

A squirrel in the garden. A rat in the wall. A pigeon on the street. Humans have spent so much of our history drawing a hard line between human spaces and wild places. When animals pop up where we don't expect or want them, we respond with fear, rage, or simple annoyance. It's no longer an animal. It's a pest. At the intersection of science, history, and narrative journalism, this book is not a simple call to look closer at our urban ecosystem. It's not a natural history of the animals we hate. Instead, this book is about us. It's about what calling an animal a pest says about people, how we live, and what we want. It's a story about human nature, and how we categorize the animals in our midst, including bears and coyotes, sparrows and snakes. Pet or pest? In many cases, it's entirely a question of perspective. This book will show readers what there is to venerate in vermin, and help them appreciate how these animals have clawed their way to success as we did everything we could to ensure their failure. In the process, readers will learn how the pests that annoy us tell us far more about humanity than they do about the animals themselves. -- Adapted from publisher's description.

• Publisher: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
• Subject: Pests / Human-animal relationships / Animals Effect of human beings on / Household pests / Predatory animals
• ISBN: 9780063097254

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
QL 85 .B76 2022	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE