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Van Damme has astronaut looks
What does that mean?
I had hoped for some pantomime, maybe even a costume, but he’d just step in front of us and say, “I’m a bear.”
whether the name on the door was Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy or Eradication Methods Laboratory or Division of Predatory Animal and Rodent Control, the goal was to help the rancher and farmer. What looked like pure wildlife biology—studies of animal behavior, food habits, migratory patterns–was biology in service of prosperity.
“I was once in Omaha.”
“We just say, ‘Namaste and please go away.’ ”
In the words of an American rancher I met last year who is also, improbably, a mountain lion activist, “When you have livestock, there’s going to be some deadstock.”
H. S. Singh’s book includes summaries of forty-three cases of “leopards straying in cities.” They do the things people do. They visit temples and stroll college campuses and go to the hospital.
The first natural history museums looked very much like the dioramas at a Cabela’s.
Posters for a California ground squirrel eradication campaign during World War I featured squirrels in tiny spiked German helmets.
The Denver Wildlife Research Laboratory ran a series of “experimental bombing tests” in the trees along a mile-long Arkansas marsh where redwing blackbirds, grackles, starlings, and cow-birds would come to roost after a long day of rice pilferage.*
