Book description
If you want to know how to capture, and then make friends with an
ant-eater, an electric eel, or a porcupine or a boa-constrictor, this is
your book.
When Gerald Durrell goes wild-animal hunting he takes interest and
affection along with his nets and traps. And his captives enjoy luxury
treatment as he discovers how to feed and train them and prepare them
for display in the zoos to which they are destined.
This is a fascinating book, for the reader is let into many secrets of
the animal hunter’s trade, as well as being introduced to a variety of
charming and curious animals such as capybaras, hoatzins, and tucotucos,
not to mention a tame curassow called Cuthbert. Gerald Durrell was one
of Britain's best loved authors and pioneering naturalists. His books,
such as the bestselling My Family and Other Animals which celebrated its
50th Anniversary in 2006, continue to entertain generations of children
and adults alike.
The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is an international
conservation charity with headquarters in Jersey, UK.
