Ghosts
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I place animals into three categories. The first category could be called “pets,” or “companion animals.” We know them well: dogs, cats, small domestic animals with whom we share our lives, even our food and our beds. The second category we know as “wildlife”: the charismatic megafauna we see on the covers of National Geographic, whose beauty and strength we revere from a distance but whose lives have little to no bearing on our own. We donate money to organizations that save them; we put photos of them up on our walls.