Hi Fellow Craw-lee
Recent studies on humans and mice have shown that persons and umm…rodents get ‘turned off' by lengthy literature. Studies have also shown that less than 5% persons and less than 9% rodents read anything if it is more than 3 sentences long. In fact if I write one more sentence I run the risk of 20% creepy subscribers and one grandpa rodent not reading umm…the further sentences at all.
All figures quoted above are concocted though it is a fact that less people have time to read these days. I shall therefore include more pictures in this issue.
Catch number 1; A large checkered keelback I pulled out from a flooded drain in Mapusa market. A huge crowd materialized to see the show in a matter of seconds.
Catch number 2; Three Baby pythons caught at Cafe Lila in Baga. One morning when I went to feed the snakes I found the pot they were in, toppled over, the covering pot had smashed and the snakes escaped, probably somewhere in my garden.
I still can't figure out how that happened.
Catch number 3 About three weeks later Nitin and I rescued a large python entangled in a net. This python too was found in Baga, about a kilometer from where I'd found the three babies.
Book Review;
Honorary Tiger
The life of Billy Arjan Singh
Duff Hart Davis
My ma picked this book up for me from the OIB bookstore and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
I always wondered why such a big fuss was made about Billy and his leopards and tigers, till I read this biography on him. The start of the book is actually a little boring as it deals with Billy as a kid. There is mention of his joining the army, plus what I thought were unnecessary details on his brothers and parents.
I almost put down the book thinking it might continue with this boring family saga but then decided I would read fifty pages to give it a fair chance. Well I am glad I gave it that chance. To say I was hooked thereafter would be an understatement. Once the big cats enter, the book gets very interesting.
Billy faced a lot of hardships protecting tigers; strangely most of his conflicts were with the Forest Department! Throughout his life he faced severe opposition from the Forest Department. The book is very inspiring; an excellent present for humans and rodents that read.
Price ; Rs; 350