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A mosaic of five book covers: Jay Matterne; Every Living Thing; Eat, Poop, Die; Playing Possum; and Why Animals Talk

Ooh, histoplasmosis from bat guano fertilizer! First time I have seen a report of this here... Links to this study. ps. nothing to do with cannabis, everything to do with the bat guano.

https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/11/12/ofae711/7917418?login=false

NY Times article headline: Bat Feces Used to Fertilize Cannabis Is Linked to 2 Deaths Two men in Rochester, N.Y., died after being infected with a rare fungus found in bat feces, which is sometimes used as fertilizer, researchers wrote in a medical journal.

Dead in Long Beach, California. By Venita Blackburn.

You discover your only sibling dead in his apartment, but you don’t tell any family or friends he died, even his daughter, instead taking his phone and pretending to be him, alive, still living; meanwhile, various ghosts (of yourself?) from the past, as well as a future android (?), observe your deceptions, which of course can’t last long.

5 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈!

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Book cover with a 70s ish font and two ragged palm trees
Book cover with a 70s ish font and two ragged palm trees
Book cover with a 70s ish font and two ragged palm trees

Two new reviews (2/2): Providing an exceedingly interesting take on how animals understand death, Playing Possum manages to be both accessible to a general audience and relevant to specialists. Out this coming Tuesday!

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2024/10/12/book-review-playing-possum-how-animals-understand-death/

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