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If houseplants could talk: communication and the natural world

Outside/In

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What Makes an Animal a Pest?

The word pest was not originally used for animals at all. It comes from pestis, the Latin word for plague. What pests are is their reflection of what we want and what we believe about our environments. Whether an animal is or is not a pest has everything to do with people and very little to do with that animal.

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