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@Sylvhem @chabdpointcom @jastrow Je suppose que c'est une question rhétorique, mais ça me fait penser à une bout d'épisode du podcast #Freakonomics sur les #rats où Bethany Brookshire, autrice d'un livre sur les animaux #nuisibles (Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains) parle de #pigeons.

J'ai copié/collé les captures d'écran en anglais de la transcription sur freakonomics.com/podcast/why-d

(Confession : Je fais partie des personnes qui n'aiment pas avoir des pigeons autours de là où je vis parce qu'ils salissent, font du bruit… bref, me dérangent, mais je ne vais pas au delà de faire des gestes ou du bruit pour qu'ils aillent voir plus loin)

BROOKSHIRE: The pigeon became domesticated around 8,000 years ago we think, which makes it one of the earliest domesticated birds. Pigeons were cornerstones of many societies. They were incredibly important. Not just for food, though we absolutely ate them. If you’ve never had squab, I highly recommend. It’s delicious. We used them as messengers. And, in fact, we decorated pigeons that served in war. Pigeons were used to carry messages, and one of my favorite things is that pigeons were the foundation of modern journalism. DUBNER: Sorry? BROOKSHIRE: Yeah. . DUBNER: How so? BROOKSHIRE: When the wire service Reuters started, it was not on a wire, it was on the wing. It was on the pigeon, because Reuters figured out he could fly hot stock tips to and from Aachen and beat the train by two hours. And, of course, we also use them for their poop because pigeon poop is excellent fertilizer. And there’s wonderful dovecotes — you can still see some of them today — developed by the ancient Persians that are these beautiful bell shapes so that all the poop falls to the bottom, and you can scoop it. DUBNER: Okay, so that history of pigeons is really interesting. But now — pigeons, they’re what, just another pest, essentially?
BROOKSHIRE: Yeah, there’s a wonderful piece of work by Colin Jerolmack, who actually documented the fall of the pigeon in the public eye via articles in The New York Times over a century. And he was able to document that over about 100 years pigeons went from noble, innocent, beautiful to rats with wings. We no longer needed fertilizer. We have chemical fertilizer. We don’t need messengers anymore. We have email. And we don’t need squab anymore. We have chicken. DUBNER: How would you say that the history of the human-pigeon relationship compares with the history of the rat-human relationship? BROOKSHIRE: I would say the history of the human-pigeon relationship differs in that we once had a use for the pigeon. I think of the pigeon as kind of the outdated cell phone of the animal world, right? We used to have such a use for them, and now we don’t, and we can’t fathom why they won’t go away. It’s so sad.
BROOKSHIRE: And that has become very deeply ingrained in many of our cultural ideas of what we should be able to control and how we should be able to control it. I would say that’s one of the reasons that we hate these animals, is because we expect animals around us to fail. We are prepared for that. We move into an area, we pave it over, we put up a Walmart, a Target, a Starbucks, a McDonald’s, what have you, and we expect the animals to leave. And then we wring our hands. We are so upset. We have killed off this beautiful species. This species becomes beautiful. It becomes charismatic. It becomes this wonderful thing. And look at the horrible stuff we’ve done to it. But when an animal is still there, we’re kind of mad. We don’t like it. It’s now where we’ve decided it doesn’t belong even if it always lived there. Now, it’s our space. You don’t belong there anymore. And we get really upset, especially if the animals begin to thrive, and especially if they thrive off things we value, right? Our gardens, our crops, our cats. We really hate them. We hate their success because their success feels like our failure.
DUBNER: To the animals that we call pests, what are humans? Are we just, you know, pests that text and build parking lots? BROOKSHIRE: That’s actually something I got a lot when I was writing the book is: It’s humans — humans are the real pests, we’re the ones invading the world and taking it over and making it awful. I think that’s too easy. Because it’s the sort of thing that makes you fling up your hands and be like, “Oh, there’s nothing I can do.” We have choices in the way that we treat other animals, and we have choices in the way we treat each other. And we don’t need to live the way that we always have.
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Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:

Mezzo and Willoughby are having trouble working out how to chew with their molars, so they get Mouse Mush (kibble soaked in water then crushed).

Turns out Cashel prefers Mouse Mush to kibble, the silly goober. #petrats #rats

cute pet rat eating from a saucer of mushy kibble
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