Status Updates From Pests: How Humans Create An...

"These reminders of our limits—in the yipping howl of the coyote, the scrabbling of a rat, or the bear at the bird feeder—might teach us something, if we cared to listen. [The dead coyote] paid the ultimate price, simply for being where she was. But she was, in fact, where she belonged."

the moral is that colonialism is always the root of the problem (like 90% of the time other than mice, they just do that)

great audio book tbh

Super super interesting read! Learning a lot more about people than pests than i would expect haha

Ask Dr. hannah about leptospirosis and ask Caroline about it

"Humans created a place for the pigeon, bringing it willingly into their lives. This is a species that helped to found modern journalism, a species whose members received military awards for bravery. And now, they're 'rats with wings.'"

Why am I crying about the noble pigeon at 11 am on a weekday