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Chargement... Queen of Shaba : The Story of an African Leopardpar Joy Adamson
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Joy Adamson's life with Penny, a female leopad, who was released into a wildlife reserve at maturity, with 85 photographs taken by the author. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Joy obviously cared a lot about her cats. During the time she was working with Penny she also took charge of an abandoned lion cub for a brief time, and an adult male leopard who was later released into Penny's territory in hopes he would become her mate- and she devoted all her efforts and time to their care and watching over them. I'm amazed she did all this work even though her health was becoming frail... She seemed prone to injury and the leopard itself often turned on her- I can't count the number of times she wrote that she was stroking Penny- who appeared to solicit the attention- when the leopard suddenly turned and tore her skin, or bit a hole in her arm! It didn't deter Joy from continuing the project. She was careful to keep other people at a distance, only one or two men who worked directly with her became trusted by the leopard; Penny remained wary of other humans and Joy made sure to stay away from areas frequented by tourists or tribesmen, so the leopard would remain as wild in behavior as possible. (In the case of the wild male leopard, nobody at all handled it, that one was fed at a distance from outside the cage until it was ready to be released).
A fascinating true account of one woman's relationship with a wild leopard. But, as reading material goes, I'm sorry to say the book itself is rather dry. I know the author took pains to avoid anthropomorphising the animals she wrote about, so that her words would be taken seriously- she was afraid that otherwise, nobody would believe her stories. So that means her books are very factual accounts, without a lot of emotion or descriptive writing. I'm debating if I should keep this one on my shelf..
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