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The writing on the animals is excellent and interesting. However, there is clear racial bias in the language used when the authors discuss research / camp life that should not be ignored, and the book would be better off if these instances were removed.
What was initially a interesting and compelling subject slowly became slobber and drool due to excessive repetition. I did enjoy some aspects of the book, as it was recommended to me by the local "dog whisperer". It seems he has spent so much time talking to dogs that he has forgotten what a good book is like.
If I had known Jane Goodall was co-author of this book, it is unlikely that I would have bought it to read, because I'm not at all a fan of her. That said, I'm glad I got this book, in part because there just aren't that many books about wild dogs, jackals (golden or otherwise) and hyenas out there.For me, some confusion arose when I did some internet reading to supplement this book and found that golden jackals aren't found anywhere in Africa. A little bit of digging revealed that what was, and...
Fantasztikus ismeretterjesztő könyv. Bár nem szeretem a kutyaféléket, macskás ember lévén, kimondottan megkedveltem olvasás közben a vadkutyákat. A hiénákat sajnálom, de még így se sikerült szívembe zárnom, viszont arra mindenképp rádöbbentem, hogy mennyire igaz az, hogy az ember csak azt képes megkedvelni, amit ismer. Minél jobban ismerünk valamit, annál jobban fogjuk szeretni és tisztelni. Épp ezért felbecsülhetetlen Jane Goodall és a többi természetkutató munkája. Lebilincselő élmény beleélni...
Excellent nature writing. Accessible to the layman.
Reminder to myself this is a book about hyenas, jackals, and wild dogs.
Innocent Killers is a book written in 1971 by Jane Goodall and her husband at the time, photographer Hugo van Lawick, describing their time observing three species of carnivores in the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater: African wild dogs, golden jackals, and spotted hyenas. They spent two years on these studies, with their infant son in tow, and what emerged is a series of charming, hilarious, and poignant tales about a vast assemblage of animal characters. As Goodall notes in her epilogue, after
This book recounts observations of packs of wild dogs, jackals and hyenas in Tanzania by Jane Goodall and her then husband. I was attracted to the book having met Jane a few years ago in India. She wrote the introductory section and the one on hyenas, he wrote about the wild dogs and the jackals. She is definitely the more engaging writer of the two and I sometimes found the parts which Hugo wrote quite hard going. There's quite a lot of repetition and laborious recounting of not especially inte...