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The corridors are hung with mounted research posters and color blowups of photogenic "nuisance" species: cormorants, ground squirrels, beavers. Wildlife management agencies and pest control websites do this too, and it always hits me as slightly off - it would be like the FBI decorating the hallways with headshots of good-looking federal criminals.
- Mary Roach, Animal Vegetable Criminal, p.279
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