Swimming with piranhas at feeding time : my life doing dumb stuff with animals
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Swimming with piranhas at feeding time : my life doing dumb stuff with animals
AUTHOR:
Conniff, Richard, 1951-
ISBN:
9780393068931
EDITION:
1st ed.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York [etc.] : W.W. Norton, 2009
PHYSICAL_DESC:
299 p. ; 22 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS:
Wild dogs -- Life on the web -- The value of a good name -- Lemurs in love -- Oneness with nature -- Bluebloods -- The King of Pain -- Life list -- Ghosts in the grasslands -- The enemy within -- The monkey mind -- Hummers -- Tucking ptarmigans strictly prohibited -- Family politics -- A little sneaky sex -- Swamp thing -- Backyard wildlife -- On the track of the cat -- Every ant on Earth at your fingertips -- Jelly bellies -- All piranhas want is a nice piece of tail -- Intimate friends -- In the realm of virtual reality.
ABSTRACT:
Award-winning nature writer Richard Conniff takes the reader on a thrilling journey deep in to the domains of strange--and often dangerous--animals. His many ill-advised forays include: pulling a huge snapping turtle out of a Louisiana bayou, tracking leopards with iKung San hunters in the Namibian desert, and flinging chicken carcasses into piranha-infested waters to check how quickly they disappear before diving in himself.
SUBJECT:
| Conniff, Richard, 1951- -- Travel |
| Dangerous animals -- Anecdotes |
| Animals -- Anecdotes |
BIBSUMMARY:
Award-winning nature writer Richard Conniff takes the reader on a thrilling journey deep in to the domains of strange--and often dangerous--animals. His many ill-advised forays include: pulling a huge snapping turtle out of a Louisiana bayou, tracking leopards with iKung San hunters in the Namibian desert, and flinging chicken carcasses into piranha-infested waters to check how quickly they disappear before diving in himself.