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| Listening to Cougar | 
| Creators: Jane Goodall, Marc Bekoff, Cara Blessley Lowe
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 649821
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.1 x 1
ISBN: 0870818945
Dewey Decimal Number: 599.7524
EAN: 9780870818943
ASIN: 0870818945
Publication Date: December 15, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Meow November 23, 2008
I saw a cougar (mountain lion) in my subdivision here in the Georgia Mountains (USA). He looked like Snagglepuss (the cartoon character) sauntering across the street with that huge tail of his arched over his back. Later, when I told people about this experience they told me that it was probably a big cat that I saw. I can't get no respect!
All 19 or so stories won't be spellbinding to all readers April 6, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I mostly liked the shorter stories where the cougar is at center. I tended to lose my focus reading the longer indirect stories -- peoples dreams and reactions to the puma itself were less interesting
 Very enjoyable and interesting... February 16, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book goes beyond the sensationalism of wild animal sightings and gives a wider scope of real life experiences with
cougars. This includes the gorier side of the few deaths (18 people
since 1890) attributable to cougar attacks.
This book was given to me by a friend (I'm not usually in to animal
books). I was pleasantly surprised that it held my attention. I liked
the fact that its a "compendium/anthology" - so you get the
perspective of many terrific writers who really know and love the subject.
I highly recommend this book even if your not a big wild lifer....great stories, great writing style...great book!
Time well spent February 14, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
In an age when there is so much hype and so little content, Listening to Cougar is a rare gem and time well spent.
This heady assortment of writers masterfully shuffled together have offered a collection of stories that are at once entertaining, enlightening and heart wrenching. You feel yourself falling through them as through a dream - utterly absorbed. The hard information included for the curious doesn't succumb to the hysterical one sided voice that seems to drive so much natural history writing these days. Instead it offers complete, unflinching information, leaving the thought and decision about these magnificent creatures as something that lingers in a continued conversation between the heart and mind of the reader... trusting that the accounts woven by this collection of voices will have rooted. It is really refreshing to be considered intelligent as a reader, and indeed for spending afternoons with this book, for once, the reader is indeed left more so. I just can't recommend this book enough. If you're considering giving this as a gift, do yourself a favor, save some time and just buy two... it's a little rude to give the copy you just read and packed around with you for a week!
Fascinating! February 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I learned so much about cougars in this compilation of essays (and a piece of fiction by Joan Fox). The authors shared personal experiences with cougars, information about cougar habits, and so forth. Each was so different yet united with each other that it was easy to read each piece as an individual item, as well as part of a cohesive whole. Of course, the essays (and short story) did not include "everything" about cougars but "just enough" to pique my interest to read and learn more. A very good book!
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