SOME WILD ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN

Bud Jones has collected an amazing number of friends and acquaintances over a wondrous lifetime as a naturalist and teacher. Readers of this book Some Wild Animals I Have Known will meet a vast collection of creatures that skitter, creep, slither, dash, bound, and soar. The brief chapters are full of notes made from both research and personal experience. There is much to learn about the coloring, personalities, habitats, and life cycles of these dozens of insects, mammals, reptiles, and birds. Yet this is no garden variety nature guide, but rather an invitation to come out to the wild and share the world of nature. Filled with anecdotes and personal memories, Jones imparts a passion for living that is nearly endangered today. Wild Animals - Holds particular interest to people in the Southeastern United States. Most of the chapters revolve around the Tallapoosa River environs in rural Georgia. It also relates to animals of the Western United States and elsewhere, giving the book a North America-wide scope. - It brims with a story-teller's wit. Did you hear the one about the farmer who went out in his Long johns to shoot a fox in the henhouse? Bud knew him, and tells why the man ate nothing but fried chicken for a while. How about the story of the gospel singer, the man without a sense of smell, and the treed polecat? Unfortunately, Bud was caught in the spray of that yarn. - It is also unusual sampling of all forms of outdoor life, and explains why men and women thrill to the call of the wild and leave behind, for at least a day, the world of fast food and computers.