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Two crazy nature lovers in the Highlands of NSW aiming to inspire everyone to get out there and enjoy the bush.

When Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont, announced that two oxen called Bill and Lou would be killed and turned into hamburgers despite their years of service as unofficial college and town mascots, Pattrice Jones and her colleagues at nearby VINE Sanctuary offered an alternative scenario: to allow the elderly bovines to retire to the sanctuary. What transpired after this simple offer was a catastrophe of miscommunication, misdirection, and misinterpretations, as the college dug in its heels, activists piled on, and social media erupted. Part true-crime mystery, part on-the-ground reportage, and part sociocultural critique, The Oxen at the Intersection is a brilliant unearthing of the assumptions, preconceptions, and biases that led all concerned with the lives and deaths of these two animals to fail to achieve their ends.

Wind in the trees, chirping sparrows, a clicking cicada, and my crunchy footsteps beneath me. What am I listening to? How am I listening? When it comes to learning about ecosystems through the sounds they make, soundscape ecology listens in a particular way. Problem is, there's a lot that comes in between the ecosystem and the way we hear it. If we want to better understand how ecosystems change through comparing their soundscapes, we need to reattune ourselves to the world of soundscape ecology and find out what it really means to listen.