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Cargando... The zoo that never was (edición 1981)por R. D Lawrence (Autor)
Información de la obraThe Zoo That Never Was por R. D. Lawrence
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I generally love R. D. Lawrence’s books. This one is about various animals he rescued in the course of several years and then returned back to the wilderness once they could fend for themselves – thus the title. Some of them returned to visit occasionally, on a poor hunting day, in which case he “invited them to dinner.” Interestingly, he observes that sometimes the greatest challenge was presented not by a bear or a lynx, but by something small, common and defenseless. Once, for example, he saved a robin chick from a snake and then was faced with the task of finding food for it, crawling around his farm with a jar looking for ants, beetles and caterpillars. It’s a great book about animals and wilderness. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Using anecdotes and personal obsevances, the author describes the habits of the variety of wild animals taken in and cared for by him and his wife on their farm in Ontario. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Among the many other animals they tended to and raised were a skunk, woodchuck, raccoons, porcupine, several squirrels, a lynx, moose, pair of river otters and one small but very lively weasel. They nursed back to health injured geese, ducks, rabbits, owls and a hawk. The wildlife on their land came to recognize the couple would not harm them, and they had flocks of chickadees and blue jays demanding food on a regular basis, a chipmunk that would feed from their hands, flying squirrels and deer that would come to the yard also for food. Such a wide range of animals, all treated with compassion and respect- but also a heavy dose of caution especially the bear and lynx. The stories about their interactions are amusing and full of interesting details, and there’s close observations on all of them. In many cases the author was particularly interested in answering questions he had about the animals’ habits. One that struck me was his idea that raccoons don’t really “wash” their food- he suggests that the behavior is caused by the stress and boredom of being shut up in captivity (hence often seen by people) and that raccoons in the wild never repetitively handle their food in water. I’d be interested to know if anyone else has made this conclusion.
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