By Desmond Morris
The smooth, noticed leopard could be the smallest of the large cats, yet its ferocity and solitary sort makes lions and tigers look puny compared. missing the social mentality of different animals, the leopard is stealthy and egocentric, ambushing its prey and sporting it excessive right into a tree the place it might probably dine on my own. people name leopards the "perfect predator." In Leopard, well known zoologist Desmond Morris seeks to teach each side of the cat, delving into the interesting background of those outstanding animals.
Morris examines the leopard's athletic attractiveness, predatory ability, cautious shyness, and crafty intelligence whereas additionally exploring the animal's parental devotion, choice for solitude, and means for revenge. as well as tracing the evolution of leopards, he considers how people have relating to the animal all through heritage. Leopards, he exhibits, have lengthy featured within the artwork, mythology, and folklore of historic Greece, Persia, Rome, or even England, the place they've got now not lived for a number of millennia. yet people and leopards don't regularly coexist peacefully; as Morris explains, leopards were recognized to assault people whilst their foodstuff is scarce or they're injured. He unearths how people have exploited the cats, trying to educate them for circus roles, and the way this present day a few everyone is now making strides towards the leopard's conservation. He additionally describes their wealthy symbolism, appearances in literature and movie, and using the leopard print in either high fashion and down-market fashion.
Packed with compelling pictures of this striking animal in motion, Leopard sheds new mild on those attractive cats.
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Making a living. 12 First he ordered in 20,000 young flat oyster spat from Brittany, which arrived at Victoria Station and which he shipped back to Orford in his Land Rover, laying them on prepared beds in Butley Creek. At the same time he began negotiations with Portuguese oyster growers, finally making a deal with the shipping line to take 120 tons of Crassostrea spat. In return they would sail the ship round from Lisbon to Setebul to load the spat to avoid having to drive them across land. But Pinney’s entrepreneurship was dogged by bad luck.
10 An imperial reputation was at stake. The experiment in Brieuc was a success, Coste reported a few years later, for there had been a rich harvest of spat: 20,000 young oysters had grown on a single submerged faggot. Coste recommended the immediate restocking of the French coastline along the principles he had developed in Brieuc: a French oyster empire stretching around the colonial territories from Algeria to Corsica as well as along the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts. The farms would be divided into lots granted to only the most energetic seamen.
By the early twentieth century Japanese oyster farmers had adopted hanging-culture techniques that continue today: oyster farmers suspend lengths of rope threaded with clam shells from bamboo rafts floating in the shallows of bays and inlets. Hiroshima still produces 60 per 41 Postcard showing the Whitstable oyster fleet on a calm morning in the 1930s. cent of Japan’s total production of oysters and has a popular annual oyster festival in February. In France the great oyster territories are on Brittany’s Atlantic coast, which has the bays, coves and estuaries needed for successful cultivation.