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The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature
The Beast in the Garden A Modern Parable of Man and Nature
Author: David Baron
The true tale of an edenic Rocky Mountain town and what transpired when a predatory species returned to its ancestral home. When, in the late 1980s, residents of Boulder, Colorado, suddenly began to see mountain lions in their yards, it became clear that the cats had repopulated the land after decades of persecution. Here, in a riveting environ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393058079
ISBN-10: 0393058077
Publication Date: 11/2003
Pages: 288
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3.8 stars, based on 6 ratings
Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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Well, I "really like it" for only some aspects: suspenseful, even though outcome is known, but equally heart wrenching. As an expert in animal behavior, I could easily (VERY easily) have predicted what would ultimately occur within the community of Boulder Colorado (and will occur yet AGAIN given that this situation appears to be proliferating.) The behaviors of the cougar(s) involved in eyewitness accounts was so aberrant, so far from the norm, that one could EASILY perceive a strong habituation of these creatures toward humans which THEN equals humans being pursued as prey. The fact that so-called "scientists" and governmental toadies are unable to see around their self inflicted tunnel-vision "glass" is the cause of so much bad science and worse government.
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