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  <title><![CDATA[King Solomon's Ring (Routledge Classics)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt;A delightful treasury of observations and insights into the lives of all sorts of creatures -- from jackdaws and water-shrews to dogs, cats and even wolves -- this is a wonderfully written introduction to the world of our furred and feathered friends!&lt;/P&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1952</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Konrad Lorenz]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book because Mary Midgely recommended it so highly in her autobiography &quot;The Owl of Minerva&quot; (which I so highly recommend to anyone who may be reading this).  It is a book about animal behaviour by an Austrian ethologist, Konrad Lorenz.  It originally came out in the later 40's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13865943">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 02 17:16:03 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 04 20:55:31 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I'd come across this book a long, long time ago. Clarkie handed it to me on my last trip to Eighth Day and it's been a night time read for the last couple of weeks.  Lorenz is able to transmit the joy of knowing animals in the simplest of iconic stories.  Just think: this man LIVED the boyhoo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41656092">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Jun 14 17:27:29 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 29 13:48:52 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an absolutely excptional book. Lorenz describes the lives of fighting fish, mallard ducks, water shrews, jackdaws, dytiscus larvae, sticklebacks, dogs, parrots, monkeys and many other interesting animals in language that makes it obvious how much he admires all animals. In addition this book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24509345">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 27 18:52:23 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anyone who studies animal behavior has heard of ethologist Konrad Lorenz (and have probably seen pictures of him being followed by a string of imprinted goslings).  This is a wonderful collection of anecdotes from his personal life overrun with animals.  He believes strongly that you cannot study a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21134290">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Feb 09 08:15:11 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 27 08:27:26 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most delightful scientific books I have read.  His observations about animals are fascinating.  If you are lucky enough--like me--to get your hands on a copy with his own illustrations scattered throughout the text then that will double your enjoyment.]]></body>
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    <review id="56976626">
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned that I'm not the only dork that likes looking at stuff outside.]]></body>
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    <review id="2799680">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Konrad Lorenz" title=" Konrad Lorenz"> Konrad Lorenz</a> is awesome. I read <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= On Aggression" title=" On Aggression"> On Aggression</a> for school and have since never thought the same way about smiling.<br/><br/>I'm looking forward to reading this - SEED says it's about his relationship with animals, something that <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= On Aggression" title=" On Aggression"> On Aggression</a> just hints at (read: the goose on the staircase scen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2799680">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25764969">
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  <date_added>Sat Jun 28 14:04:11 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you decide to read it get an addition that has the original sketches Lorenz drew himself.  I was suprised at how much I enjoyed reading this,even though I didn't get through all of it.  You can only read so many details about how geese-talk differs from duck-talk or the inter-workings of a pond a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25764969">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3507545">
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 25 09:38:56 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 25 09:40:01 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[i have a really old edition of the book that includes drawings by the author on the margin that really add to the experience of reading the book. thoroughly enjoyable book about animals and people.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was my younger daughters favorite for years- if you have a late grade-school to college age kid who loves animals this book will provide fun &amp; science in a naritive form. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book I return to every decade or so.  The tales of imprinting, lost cockatoos, dogs and golden hamsters are unforgettable.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just plain awesome animal behavior book.]]></body>
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    <review id="2656440">
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic book on animal behavior.]]></body>
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