Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ritvo, Harriet
• Rutherford, Stephanie
• Wilcox, Sharon

Titel

Migration, assimilation, and invasion in the nineteenth century 1

Ist Teil von

• Historical Animal Geographies, 2018, p.171-184

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• People were on the move in the nineteenth century. People are not unique in their mobility, as they are not unique in most of their attributes. Other animals share our basic desires with regard to prosperity and survival, and when they move independently, they are therefore likely to have similar motives. As in the human case, when the migrations of animals are controlled by others, their journeys also reveal a great deal about those who are pulling the strings. A few immigrant camels arrived in Australia in 1840, but the ship of the desert was not integrated into the economic life of the colony for several decades. A camel-sized pet is an expensive luxury, and there was no significant circus or zoo market for animals that had long ceased to be exotic. A recent article on the topic in Scientific American was headlined "Shakespeare to Blame for Introduction of European Starlings to US".