PHIL 296 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Eastern Gray Squirrel, House Mouse, Dormouse
4 Apr 2016
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Examples: squirrels, mallard ducks, bats, deer, foxes, crows, badgers. Some liminal animals come from the wild (or their ancestors did). Synathropic species live exclusively in human settlements: house sparrows, house mice: niche specialists: inflexible. Dependent on a particular habitat not wilderness habitat but habitat that has emerged from human activity e. g. hedgerows (dormice), tall crops (corncrakes): introduced exotics: escapees and those deliberately released. American grey squirrel, red-masked parakeets, rabbits: feral animals: domesticated animals who have escaped human control. Liminal animals: the challenge: we share our habitat with liminal animals. When we change the physical world in which we live, we affect not just the lives of the humans and domesticated animals living there but also the lives of liminal animals. Their invisibility has led to their exclusion. There is no other place where individual liminal animals belong they have as much of a right to be here as we do.
