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Catching Wild Beasts Alive
Joseph Delmont
ISBN 1-930585-47-0
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252 pp. / Paperback (6 x 9)

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In this classic reprint, Delmont describes his life, traveling around the globe, catching wild animals for zoos and circuses in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He gives a fascinating description of trapping techniques, as well as offering his notes on unusual behavior in species he studied.

Contents

Preface
1. The Workshop of an Adventurer
2. The Speech of Animals
3. Are Wild Animals Dangerous?
4. Tiger Hunting and Trapping
5. Panthers
6. The Clouded Leopard
7. The Cheetah
8. Strange Phenomena Among Exotic Animals and the Emotional Life of Animals
9. The “Itannia” or Horned Frog and the Ants
10. Strange Facts About Frogs
11. Frogs and White Ants
12. The Adopted Child
13. The Chameleon
14. A Strange Friendship
15. The Lamb Rends The Wolf
16. Family Mourning
17. The Widowed Orang-Outang
18. The Tschakma Nurse
19. Bats
20. Trapping Pachyderms
21. The Most Dangerous Beasts in Jungle, Forest, and Plain
22. Rare Animals
23. Animals of the Wild as Doctors
Conclusion
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