Isn’t that usually how infestations work though?
Aren’t infestations about something that wasn’t there before and doesn’t actually belong there?
No, it is about their presence being wanted or not. I don’t want to go to a swamp because is infested with mosquitoes for example, mosquitoes were always there.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/infestation
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/infestWe are aware of the dictionary definition. OP was precisely about arguing that that definition is a based on a fallacy.
Where is the fallacy?
Present where they are unwanted, but often used to describe their natural habitat.
I see. The word infested has nothing to do with being their natural habitats or not, it means that there’s plenty of an animal we don’t want for whatever reason, otherwise we would say that it is rich in those animals.
Edit: Oh, second I see. The fallacy is that they are using a wrong definition that is creeping into a common use of the word not yet in the dictionary.
But live there though.
Human infested cities. Cat infested cafés. Cattle infested farms.
I’m taking this far too seriously for a meme, but I already looked it up out of curiosity so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers; to plague, harass.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/infest
Interestingly (at least to me) it looks like it’s related to "manifest’.
We also kill millions of sharks per year, while they’re responsible for maybe 10 human deaths per year (worldwide).
Actually marinas like the one pictured or “canal estates” often create environments that become “infested” with pests and predators. Some of which for example contain bull sharks in plague proportions. Yes sharks live in the ocean but anyone living next to a canal teaming with them would conclude that there is an “investation”.
Bull sharks are unique in that they can somehow retain salt from ocean / salt / brackish water which allows them to operate in fresh water. They’re also more aggressive than other species, or perhaps just more likely to grab at movement in murky river water.
I remember watching a documentary suggesting that bull shark attacks might have been the inspiration for the Jaws series, after a spate of attacks in estuaries in the US in the years prior.
Jeremy Wade on River Monsters TV series also had an episode about them.
I just watched a movie last week where these people where exploring a freshwater cave and then became trapped by a shark. I thought it was some stupid movie detail, didn’t know it might actually be possible.
This is why festivals are called that all teeming with wretched humans and their various parasites
On a related note, the “Cities” episode of Planet Earth is an interesting one. Human cities are the fastest growing ecosystem on Earth, so why wouldn’t our fellow planetary inhabitants want to take our shit when we’ve been taking theirs?
Eh, we see lots of people infested places and they can also live there. The two things can both be true. (Granted the number of sharks needed for this title is a bit low).
infest verb in·fest in-ˈfest infested; infesting; infests Synonyms of infest transitive verb
1 : to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner shark-infested waters
2 : to live in or on as a parasite
Oktober-fest;
1 : to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner buxom-waitress-in traditional-dress infested waters
2 : to live in or on as a completely smashed parasite
Bro, the way I’m infesting my pants right now…
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