The Mystery of the Merganser
How Australian historical documents resolved questions about an unusual merganser specimen from Korea at the American Museum of Natural History.
How Australian historical documents resolved questions about an unusual merganser specimen from Korea at the American Museum of Natural History.
A brief examination of how Rugendas’s artwork contributes to an understanding of the network of human and nonhuman animals in nineteenth-century Brazilian society.
A case study of the effects of malaria in the Caucasus across the revolutionary divide of 1917.
Crocodiles attract tourists, and since the late 1940s, they have been used to promote travel to northern Australia.
This article discusses how local perspectives influence the recognition and control of a locust outbreak.
Polar bears invade Russian archipelago and town in Novaya Zemlya, northern Russia.
This article focuses on the contingent practices that constitute oyster aquaculture in contemporary Japan and the multiple forms of more-than-human entanglements that emerge as a result.
Once introduced to promote the fur industry, beavers in Tierra del Fuego are now deemed an invasive population to be eradicated.
This essay examines the history of venomous snake research conducted by the Boston-based United Fruit Company starting in the 1920s.
Humans have a long history of meddling in the oil palm’s sex life.