“All animals must eat. But who eats or doesn’t eat whom and
why?”
This book deals with a subject that I deal with quite a bit
in my life. Fortunately though, I’m not
an insect so I don’t really have to worry too much about it as the predators
that are out there haven’t succeeded in eating Huc & Gabet as of yet... despite
their best attempts.
A while ago we had a locust plague here in country Victoria
and I was very interested in trying some of the many recipes available on the
interwebs. Unfortunately I didn’t have a
net or access to small children (they are apparently very good at catching
them) at the time, so I was unable to sample the culinary delights of the
locust. A friend of mine (with small
children) did manage to partake and gave quite a favorable report. All of this has nothing to do with this book
as it is not concerned with us humans*, but rather with the other members of
the animal world, so unfortunately there is minimal information regarding human
locust interaction or information regarding how humans can avoid being eaten.
What this book does have going for it is that it is written in a very readable manner and is one
that I can well imagine will be popular with your regular popular science
reader. One thing I do believe, is that this book is more of a
spontaneous purchase and will probably sell better from my shop stock as
apposed to on line. Why do i think
this? Well I have read a number of
popular science books over the years and I think I could be tempted to read
this one if I stumbled upon it… that is if I didn’t already have a pile of
books that will probably take me the best part of the next 5 years to
read.
* I’m just assuming that all my readers are human. My apologies to any that aren’t.
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