Nature isn’t always so easily displaced. Earlier in the day, I had shown Cottrill a video of an enormous wild turkey pecking so aggressively at my glass-paned door that I’d thought he would surely shatter it. I had simply stood there in my pajamas, in the soft post-dawn light, dumbly watching. Later that night, Cottrill texted me footage of a black bear pawing through her trash before bounding off with a cardboard pizza box.