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[book post] A Most Remarkable Creature by Jonathan Meiburg
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg
I thought I knew what I was getting into with this book. I've seen photos of caracaras before, particularly of the crested variety (the only kind we get in North America), and I knew they were big ol' majestic hawk-lookin' mofos.
Turns out, however, while still pictures make caracaras look like majestic high-flying stoics, in motion they're more akin to... thieving little monkeys. Shoe-eating, campsite-destroying, highly social, very noisy, endlessly curious buggers. Obnoxious little shits, in short. And oh gosh did this book make me love them.
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I thought I knew what I was getting into with this book. I've seen photos of caracaras before, particularly of the crested variety (the only kind we get in North America), and I knew they were big ol' majestic hawk-lookin' mofos.
Turns out, however, while still pictures make caracaras look like majestic high-flying stoics, in motion they're more akin to... thieving little monkeys. Shoe-eating, campsite-destroying, highly social, very noisy, endlessly curious buggers. Obnoxious little shits, in short. And oh gosh did this book make me love them.
( Read more... )