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I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife. Gerald Durrell s accounts of the animals he encountered on his travels were some of the first widely shared descriptions of the world s most extraordinary animals. Moving from the West Coast of Africa to the northern tip of South America — and elsewhere — Durrell observes the courtships, wars and characters of a variety of creatures, from birds of paradise, to ants and anteaters, among others.