【讀書】所羅門的指環 *給喜愛狗的朋友*
Solomons Ring
By Konrad Lorenz
It is written by the renowned expert on animal behaviour, Konrad Lorenz, who spends his life with all kinds of animals.
Instead of being a cool scientist, he studies the behaviours of animals through living with them - not keeping them in cage, but letting them swim, walk and fly around and establishes a mutual relation with them.
Through this intimate interaction, he acquires King Solomons Ring, i.e. the ability to communicate with the animals. Stressing that non-human animals do not really have a language of a comparable conceptual level like ours, he is able to read the instinctively inherited expression of different kinds of animals, including fishes, birds, dogs, etc..
The book records his story with these animals - his acute observation and vivid description render the book a perfect marriage between objective science and poetic prose. I especially recommend the interesting chapter on dog. From this you can learn the difference between dogs descended from jackals and dogs descended from wolfs: the former dont have a strong character and follow anyone close to them; while the latter are at most loyal to one master only (and you have to start keeping them not later then eight months after they are born) and once they commit, they cannot live without their masters and will even go disordered if forced to do so.
By Konrad Lorenz
It is written by the renowned expert on animal behaviour, Konrad Lorenz, who spends his life with all kinds of animals.
Instead of being a cool scientist, he studies the behaviours of animals through living with them - not keeping them in cage, but letting them swim, walk and fly around and establishes a mutual relation with them.
Through this intimate interaction, he acquires King Solomons Ring, i.e. the ability to communicate with the animals. Stressing that non-human animals do not really have a language of a comparable conceptual level like ours, he is able to read the instinctively inherited expression of different kinds of animals, including fishes, birds, dogs, etc..
The book records his story with these animals - his acute observation and vivid description render the book a perfect marriage between objective science and poetic prose. I especially recommend the interesting chapter on dog. From this you can learn the difference between dogs descended from jackals and dogs descended from wolfs: the former dont have a strong character and follow anyone close to them; while the latter are at most loyal to one master only (and you have to start keeping them not later then eight months after they are born) and once they commit, they cannot live without their masters and will even go disordered if forced to do so.
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