Trash animals : how we live with nature's filthy, feral, invasive, and unwanted species / Kelsi Nagy and Phillip David Johnson II, editors ; foreword by Randy Malamud.

Contributor Nagy, Kelsi, editor of compilation.

ImprintMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]

Descriptiona xvi, 314 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:The symbolic trash animal. See gull: cultural blind spots and the disappearance of the Ring-Billed Gull in Toronto / Gavan P. L. Watson -- Hunger makes the wolf / Charles Bergman -- Beauty and the beast / Catherine Puckett -- Managing apocalypse: a cultural history of the Mormon Cricket / Christina Robertson -- The native trash animal. One nation under Coyote, divisible / Lisa Couturier -- Prairie Dog and prejudice / Kelsi Nagy -- Nothing says trash like Packrats: nature boy meets bushy tail / Michael P. Branch -- The invasive trash animal. Canadas: from conservation success to Flying Carp / Bernard Quetchenbach -- The Bard's bird; or, The Slings and arrows of avicultural hegemony: a tragicomedy in five acts / Charles Mitchell -- Fly-fishing for Carp as a deeper aesthetics / Phillip David Johnson II -- The urban trash animal. Metamorphosis in Detroit / Carolyn Kraus -- Kach'i: garbage birds in a hybrid landscape / James E. Bishop -- Flying rats / Andrew D. Blechman -- Moving beyond trash. Kill the cat that kills the bird? / Bruce Barcott -- An unlimited take of ugly: the Bullhead Catfish / Kyhl Lyndgaard -- A six-legged guru: fear and loathing in nature / Jeffrey A. Lockwood -- The parables of the rats and mice / Kathleen Dean Moore.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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