Part of the Pride: My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa by Kevin Richardson (Author). A few yrs ago, the movie started to flow into on YouTube® of an outstanding man named Kevin Richardson, an animal's custodian in a South African animal park. The movie showed Richardson in his day-to-day work, trying some of the world's most harmful animals directly within the eye, crouching down at their level, playing with them and, sometimes, even kissing them on the nose--all without ever being attacked or injured. The movies’ popularity skyrocketed and Richardson became a world sensation.
In “A part of the Satisfaction”, Kevin Richardson tells the story of his life and work, how he grew from a young boy who cared for so many animals that he was known as “The Fowl Man of Orange Grove” to an adolescent who ran wild and, finally, to a person who is ready to cross the divide between humans and predators. As a self-taught animal behaviorist, Richardson has damaged every safety rule identified in humans when working with these wild animals. Flouting widespread misconceptions that breaking an animal’s spirit with sticks and chains are one of the simplest ways to subdue them, he uses love, understanding and trust develop private bonds with them.
His distinctive methodology of getting to know their particular person personalities, what makes each of them angry, completely satisfied, upset, or irritated-just like a mom understands a baby-has induced them to just accept him like certainly one of their very own into their fold. Like anyone else who truly loves animals, Richardson permits their own stories to share center stage as he tells readers about Napoleon and Tau, the two male lions he calls his “brothers”; the wonderful Meg, a lioness Richardson taught to swim; the fierce Tsavo who savagely attacked him; and the heartbreaking little hyena referred to as Homer who didn’t stay to see his first birthday. Richardson additionally chronicles his work on the forthcoming function film “The White Lion” and has so much to say in regards to the state of lion farming and searching in South Africa today. In “Part of the Delight”, Richardson, with novelist Tony Park, delves into the thoughts of the massive cats and their world to indicate readers a different manner of understanding the harmful big cats of Africa.
Just completed studying the book. It is a great story of Kevin Richardson and his love of animals. You possibly can actually really feel a bond between man and any animal he works with. It also talks about how a few of those shut relationships are misplaced with the animals and how he understands that change within the animal. He is a really special person who has the ability to realize the friendship of these beautiful cats. It is effectively price reading not solely from the standpoint of what and how he has accomplished these bonds with the cats but also things that occurred that he should not have executed and the results of them. It was very heart warming to see this interaction with these majestic animals.
Is a superb story that everyone ought to read , it would assist to know the connection with big cats and men, Kevin is a really special soul that teaches the world rather a lot, is an outstanding e book, I simply adore it and now I'm planning my trip to South Africa to fulfill Kevin and his fantastic world .
Part of the Pride: My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa
Kevin Richardson (Author)
256 pages
St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition (September 1, 2009)
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