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Brookshire, Bethany.
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Animals -- Effect of human beings on.
Household pests.
Human-animal relationships.
Pests.
Predatory animals.
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Brookshire, Bethany.
Animals -- Effect of human beings on.
Household pests.
Human-animal relationships.
Pests.
Predatory animals.
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Pests : how humans create animal villains / Bethany Brookshire.
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Brookshire, Bethany.
Thorndike Press/Cengage Company, c2023.
Call #:
LP
632
.6
B873p
Subjects
Animals -- Effect of human beings on.
Household pests.
Human-animal relationships.
Pests.
Predatory animals.
ISBN:
9798885789325 (large print hc.)
Edition:
Large print ed.
Description:
591 p. (large print). ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not -- from cats to rats, elephants to pigeons -- and what this tells us about our own perceptions, beliefs, and actions, as well as our place in the natural world. 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, the 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. Bethany Brookshire's deeply researched and entirely entertaining 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, we will learn how the pests that annoy us tell us far more about humanity than they do about the animals themselves."--From publisher.
Bethany Brookshire is an award-winning science writer who was a 2019–2020 MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow. Her work has been published in outlets including the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Scientific American, Science News, and Slate. She is a host of the podcast Science for the People. She holds a PhD in physiology and pharmacology from Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
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