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Nature

Robert M. Sapolsky: Primate's Memoir (2007, Scribner)

Sitting squat in the middle of the endless miles of open grassland and tree-lined streambeds that the baboons frequented for food each day was the great Impenetrable Thicket. It stretched for miles along a ridge top, thick scrub and endless thorn bushes, deep aardvark holes and jagged volcanic rock, teeming with animals you wouldn’t want to meet. The previous grad students told me that the baboons couldn’t be followed there. I tried once on foot and had nearly been flattened by a rhino. Then I tried by vehicle, promptly punctured two tires, nearly snapped an axle, and then came close to being flattened by a rhino. So I gave up. Inventing the wheel was what one of the grad students claimed the baboons must be up to when they thicketed us.

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It's a great book on how field research works in the real world.

William Stolzenburg: Rat Island (Hardcover, 2011, Bloomsbury USA)

"Rat Island rises from the icy gray waters of the Bering Sea, a mass of …

Great Book

I've read this book 2 or 3 times, and listened to the Audio book at least twice. It's a great book about helping island ecosystems recover. Mostly from Rats, but there is a fair bit of information on feral cats as well (which are almost as destructive as Rats). It gives a good overview of how to get introduced species off an island, once they are established. Methodology has to adapt to species (Rats are adaptable), weather, cost, acceptable losses among non target species (You'll never achieve perfection) and any other factor that comes up. Great book!

finished reading See These Bones by Chris Tullbane (The Murder of Crows, #1)

Chris Tullbane: See These Bones (Paperback, 2019, Ghost Falls Press)

A foul mouthed teen necromancer attempts to become a superhero. He's the first Crow (Necromancer) …

It's a Post Apocalyptic Superhero novel, about Damien. A conflicted, foul mouthed, temperamental Crow (Necromancer), training to be a superhero. And Crows always go insane.

I've read this series 3 or 4 times. They are comfort reads for me.