Synanthropes Series

Synanthropes, also termed urban wildlife, are animals and plants which live next to humans, without becoming domesticated. This series looks at evidence of these animals through their bodies, whether decaying or whole, as they can be encountered in our urban-wildlife areas. Death is often an overlooked part of life, and it is a regenerative part of ecosystems, including urban wildlife areas. These animals died of undetermined causes, not necessarily from living near humans. This lack of human direct agency in their death differs from the history of picturing dead animals in hunting trophy imagery, in still life paintings, or as animated in natural history works created from taxidermy specimens.

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Synanthropes is part of the Nature is a Haunted House series.