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.
- ISBN10 0755111982
- ISBN13 9780755111985
- Publish Date 31 December 2004 (first published 6 November 1972)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint House of Stratus
- Format Paperback
- Language English