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Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains

by Bethany Brookshire

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

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

384

ISBN

9780063097254