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By Konrad Lorenz,Julian Huxley

Solomon, the legend is going, had a magic ring which enabled him to talk to the animals of their personal language. Konrad Lorenz used to be talented with an analogous strength of realizing the animal global. He was once that infrequent beast, an excellent scientist who may perhaps write (and certainly draw) fantastically. He did greater than the other individual to set up and popularize the learn of the way animals behave, receiving a Nobel Prize for his paintings. King Solomon's Ring, the publication which introduced him all over the world acceptance, is a pleasant treasury of observations and insights into the lives of every type of creatures, from jackdaws and water-shrews to canine, cats or even wolves. Charmingly illustrated by way of Lorenz himself, this publication is a perfectly written advent to the realm of our furred and feathered neighbors, an international which regularly presents an uncanny resemblance to our personal. A needs to for any animal-lover!

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