Dooren talks of “haunting” he means to refer to both physical and symbolic connections sustained after the vanishing of animals. The way, for example, the ornate shape of a blossom’s throat might have coevolved with the ribbon-length tongue of a pollinating bat that has since been killed off. The apparent senselessness and surplus-ness of that flower might then emanate a kind of strangeness. So long as such a feature doesn’t steer its proprietor into coextinction (so long as other pollinators can still propagate the plant), there will be a kind of ghostly residue: a physical communication with
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