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daniellekat's review against another edition
2.75
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal cruelty
Minor: Colonisation and Forced institutionalization
sr_marshrat's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal death
Moderate: Death and Injury/Injury detail
koplomps's review against another edition
2.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Vomit, and Violence
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
another_dahlia's review against another edition
3.0
Minor: Death, Excrement, Murder, Animal death, Child death, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
meganpbennett's review against another edition
2.5
Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Gore, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Excrement, and Vomit
schnaucl's review against another edition
4.0
This was an interesting book but also a sad one. I hadn't realized how rarely relocation works out well for the animal being relocated and in fact may ultimately be crueler euthanasia. Of course, that was a chapter focusing on a specific species in a specific place, so maybe that's not universally true but there are lines in other chapters that made me think it often doesn't work as well as the public would like to believe.
Much of the book was focused on the United States but there were a few chapters that took place in other countries and it was interesting to see how other cultures reacted to "nuisance" animals. There was also a chapter on dangerous plants which focused on castor beans and one that focused on falling trees.
There were lots of interesting tidbits on things like the forensics of animal attacks, and how good prey animals are at judging distance and speed for predators. But my main takeaway is that humans are really good at causing problems for other species and then often make those problems worse when they try and solve it. Or else we're completely ineffective and can't change anything. I don't think there were any chapters involving animals where humans were able to make a positive long term difference (although maybe the one about deer will turn out that way). Obviously there are cases where humans helped bring species back from the verge of extinction but usually after we put them there in the first place (and that wasn't covered in the book since it didn't fit the topic).
Graphic: Animal death and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty
Minor: Animal death
tinytrashqueen's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Medical content
Moderate: Vomit, Excrement, and Injury/Injury detail