There are some reasons to love—or at least respect—the universally reviled pest.
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‘Nature’s Struggle’ shows what human greed has done to Chicago
A new exhibit at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum encourages visitors to think more about what they consume.
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Show us your . . . passenger pigeon
Steve Sullivan of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum explains that the bird was hunted so rabidly it wasn’t able to reproduce at a high enough rate.
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Beer-can pigeon: It’s what’s for dinner
The rural pigeon has long been a valued food source, but what about its urban cousin?
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Nature Museum wants you to start thinking about what you stick in your mouth
A new exhibit, “Food: The Nature of Eating,” will make you think about your own eating habits.
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Chicken of the trees
The rural eastern gray squirrel has long been a valued food source, but what about its urban cousin?
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Lords of Nature
On the second anniversary of the Roscoe Village cougar shooting, the Notebaert Museum screens the documentary “Lords of Nature: Life in a Land of Great Predators,” on Thursday 4/14.