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I came across this video via twitter the other day – it tells the story of how wolves have changed the geography of Yellowstone National Park. This is mostly a tale about how the “natural” actions of wolves – hunting deer – led to a cascade of changes that resulted in changes to rivers, and I suppose that one might say that the wolves weren’t so much actively changing as they were acting like wolves, with unintended consequences. But I do think that there are parallels between the wolfish behavior in this video and human interactions with the environment. So often, we read stories about the unintentional consequences of one act or another (for example, repopulating New England with beavers leading to the flooding of backyards).
Given our discussion of how we go about making animals the center of the story from last week, this video seems like a good example of how we can talk about animals as the main, and agentic, characters.