Dog Days, Raven Nights
A Animals, Science, Birds book. This retrospective of a raven study from the viewpoint of "this was our...
Twenty years ago, fresh out of graduate school and recently married, John and Colleen Marzluff left Arizona for a small cabin in the mountains of western Maine. Their mission: to conduct the first-ever extensive study of the winter ecology of the Common Raven under the tutelage of biologist Bernd Heinrich.Drawing on field notes...
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- Pages: 352 pages
- ISBN: 9780300167115 / 0
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This retrospective of a raven study from the viewpoint of "this was our life while we did it" had its interesting moments. But overall, the book was slow reading. I feel I learned a little bit about the "sled dog community" in Maine and Idaho, a fair amount about conducting raven research in Maine (and the pain points involved in post-doc... The two stars are just for the lovely linocut illustrations. A book with an interesting premise - an account of their research into raven behaviour, also looking at the development of their marriage, relationship with their mentor and hobby of dogsledding singularly fails to be engaging. This book has Maine, ravens and the two young post-docs studying them, sled dogs and the same couple training and racing them, an account told twenty years later, drawn from field notes and diaries. We get two perspectives, John Marzluff's, and his wife's, Colleen Marzluff. The book is physically beautiful, thanks to the gorgeous linocut...
