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Title: Among the Bears: Raising Orphaned Cubs in the Wild by Benjamin Kilham, Ed Gray ISBN: 0-8050-7300-0 Publisher: Owl Books (NY) Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Meet the Bears
Comment: This book is basically a primary source about black bears, a subject that, as the author points out, has received spotty attention. "Among the Bears" partially remedies this neglect: it is rich in anecdote, modest yet persuasive in analyses.
This book has many small, satisfying pleasures to it, not the least of which is the idea of a large, stereotypically manly guy like Kilham being a mother to these bears. And he is an amazing mother, patient, wise and tireless. He always lends his bears an ear, literally (for suckling). Another is the reader learns along with Kilham, who continues to turn over the behaviors of his bears in his head, often coming to explanations only after thinking and experimenting. Finally, his physical encounters with bears are entertaining and, I think, instructive about how bears (and humans) become at ease with each other.
The book is very plain in language. As his story progressed, the content of the ideas was plenty engaging, and more than made up for any lack of style.
Telling the history of his interactions with bears, including an unusually large male interested in Squirty, one of the female bears he has raised, Killham ventures prescriptive advice about how to handle a bear encounter only at the end of the book. "Hold your ground, stay calm, maintain eye contact, and let the situation resolve itself. It will." (245)
Throughout the book, Kilham has relevant and undogmatic insights about hunting and hunters.
A small complaint: A bibliography, or more simply--in the character of this straightforward, unpretentious book--a short list of suggested readings would have been welcome. However, the basic but thorough index is excellent.
Rating: 5
Summary: Among the Bears
Comment: This is a wonderful book! Kilham does for bears what Jane
Goodhall did for primates. He lives among them and and in
so doing gains valuable insights into their abilities and
behaviors. He discovers bears to be highly intelligent
individuals, but with strong social connections, communicating
over distance and time by scent, sound, body language, and
deliberate trail signs. If you have any interest at all in
bears or in social lives of animals, buy this book!
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent!
Comment: If you love animals, if you are interested in their behavior, or if you just enjoy a great read.......BUY THIS BOOK! Ben Kilham raised orphaned black bear cubs as a momma bear would. He successfully returned them to the wild and maintained a relationship with them, even after one had cubs of her own! This is no pet bear story, but a look at how one man changed the way we look at a species, while retaining a respect for their wild stature. Black bears are sensitive, intelligent and often altruistic, as Ben Kilham shows. He makes us realize that there are things to be learned about animals, especially black bears and their behavior, that cannot be taken lightly. We humans are not the only intelligent and emotional beings on this planet!
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Title: Walking with Bears: One Man's Relationship with Three Generations of Wild Bears by Terry D. BeBruyn ISBN: 1558216421 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Summers with the Bears : Six Seasons in the North Woods by Jack Becklund, Patti Becklund ISBN: 0786885378 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 14 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Beauty Within the Beast: Kinship With Bears in the Alaska Wilderness by Stephen Stringham ISBN: 1931643105 Publisher: Seven Locks Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Great Bear Almanac by Gary Brown ISBN: 1558214747 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Among Grizzlies: Living With Wild Bears in Alaska by Timothy Treadwell, Jewel Palovak ISBN: 0345426053 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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