The Ecological Origins and Consequences of the Rodent Bait Station: From WWII Britain to Contemporary California.

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2023-05-19 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2023.2213390

Christopher M Kelty

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Abstract

This article describes the origin of the rodent bait station, a globally distributed system for controlling rats, currently creating a secondary ecological crisis affecting wildlife who eat rats that have eaten the poison. I argue that this system is tied to settler colonial places like California and that banning poison will not address the crisis. It details the history of this box as a scientific ecological solution to rat control, created by Charles Elton and his research group during WWII. I pair this account with an account of contemporary science into the ecological crisis of rodenticides.

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鼠饵站的生态起源和后果:从二战的英国到当代加利福尼亚。

这篇文章描述了鼠饵站的起源，这是一个全球分布的控制老鼠的系统，目前正在造成二次生态危机，影响到吃了毒药的老鼠的野生动物。我认为这个系统与加利福尼亚这样的移民殖民地区有关，禁止毒药并不能解决危机。它详细介绍了这个盒子的历史，作为控制老鼠的科学生态解决方案，由查尔斯埃尔顿和他的研究小组在二战期间创造。我将这一描述与当代科学对灭鼠剂生态危机的描述结合起来。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

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4.10

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4.30%

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