Trash Animals: Excerpts on the Orion blog
On packrat philosophy and lubber grasshoppers.
From pigeons to prairie dogs, Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species, out now from University of Minnesota Press, offers reflections on reviled animals and their place in contemporary life. Each essay in the collection focuses on a so-called “trash species”—coyotes, carp, cockroaches, magpies, and lubber grasshoppers, among others—examining the biology and behavior of each in contrast to cultural assumptions about them.
By: Orion staff
Story Date: 2013-06-19T00:00:00
Story Date: 2013-06-19T00:00:00