Fionnáin quoted Living As a Bird by Vinciane Despret
It is, for example, much easier to count the number of fights in which a bird gets involved than to measure the effects neighbours might have on the capacity of that same bird to detect or eject an intruder who might represent a threat.
— Living As a Bird by Vinciane Despret, Helen Morrison (Page 67)
A summary section considering how scientific research is influenced by overriding biases and prejudices in a given society – for example here on how territory is considered based on what can be quantified and measured, to fit with post-WWII western economic theory.