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Краткое содержание: Wild Animals I Have Known
- Чтение: 8 мин.
- 10 parts
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A gray wolf evades poison, traps and bounty hunters on the open ranges of New Mexico.
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Wild Animals I Have Known — кратко о книге
Краткое содержание: 8 min на чтение
- Время чтения
- Около 3 h 25 min2 h 45 min fast, 4 h 5 min slow
- Длительность
- Слов: 49 40038 chapters
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- Страниц: 144217 in large print
- Уровень в библиотеке
- Средний longer sentences, everyday words
- Первая публикация
- 1898by Ernest Thompson Seton
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Wild Animals I Have Known in short
Wild Animals I Have Known gathers eight lives into one argument. Each animal is an individual with a name, a character and a chain of choices. Lobo shows cunning, Silverspot shows a society of crows, Raggylug and the fox cubs show how parents teach, and Bingo, Wully and the Pacer show wild natures meeting human lives.
What Wild Animals I Have Known is about
Picture a wolf that carries three poisoned baits along a trail, stacks them on a fourth, and scatters filth over them. That is Lobo, king of the Currumpaw, and the man he mocks is the author himself.
Ernest Thompson Seton, a naturalist and artist who spent years on the Canadian prairie, published Wild Animals I Have Known in 1898. His claim is bold. A wild animal should be told as a person with a name, a history and a point of view. So he gives you a wolf, a crow, a rabbit, a dog, a fox, a wild stallion, a sheepdog and a partridge. Behind them lies one idea: we and the beasts are kin.
Для кого. Readers who delight in close observation of nature will love this, as will fans of dog, wolf and horse stories told with warmth, wit and a naturalist's insight.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
Lobo rules the Currumpaw ranges
On the Currumpaw cattle range of northern New Mexico, one gray wolf holds more power than any rancher. The Mexican herders call him Lobo, the king. He leads five followers, and a pale female called Blanca is thought to be his mate.
Seton shows the pack by what it does. They kill about a cow a day for five years, and they are choosy. They want young heifers and refuse any meat that died naturally or was killed by stockmen.
The ranchers increase the reward. A Texan named Tannerey comes with fine horses and huge wolfhounds. Lobo leads the chase to rocky canyons, splits the dogs, and turns on the scattered survivors. Tannerey goes home beaten. One hunter, Calone, even has the wolves raise their pups less than a thousand yards from his door.
Real cunning in an animal comes from knowing its own ground and what it fears.
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Cunning defeats every poison and every trap
In the fall of 1893 Seton rides to New Mexico himself.
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A mate's capture changes the whole hunt
Seton notices a smaller wolf sometimes running ahead of the leader.
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Silverspot leads an army of crows
The second tale moves to the pine hills of Toronto.
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Silverspot teaches the young and keeps his hoard
Crow life has a private side.
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Raggylug learns the secrets of the swamp
Raggylug is a young cottontail named for the torn ear he gets in his first adventure.
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Bingo, a wolfish dog with a loyal heart
The fourth tale is the story of Seton's own dog.
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The Springfield fox and her cubs
In the summer holidays Seton comes home to Springfield and finds hens vanishing one at a time.
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A wild stallion and a dog that hunts by night
The Pacing Mustang starts as talk over a ranch table, about a black colt that paces and never breaks into a gallop.
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Redruff, the Don Valley partridge, and the book's moral
The last tale begins with a mother partridge leading twelve day-old chicks to drink.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Lobo The giant gray wolf who leads the Currumpaw pack, avoids every poison and trap, and keeps a fierce loyalty to his mate.
- Blanca The pale she-wolf of Lobo's pack, thought to be his mate, who sometimes runs ahead of the leader.
- Silverspot The old crow with a silver spot by his eye who leads two hundred crows near Toronto and drills the young.
- Raggylug A young cottontail rabbit with a torn ear who learns from his mother every trick of surviving the swamp.
- Bingo Seton's black collie with a white ring on his muzzle, who lives a half-wild life on the Manitoba prairie and is loyal to the end.
- Vixen The mother fox of Springfield who raises four cubs on stolen hens and will go to any length for them.
- Wild Jo Calone The cowboy who wants to catch the black pacing stallion and tries every trick of the range to do it.
- Redruff A partridge with a copper ruff who grows up in the Don Valley and learns to outwit the poacher Cuddy.
How it ends (spoiler)
The preface calls the stories tragic because they are true, since a wild animal's life always ends tragically. Lobo, caught in four traps, lies silent and dies of a broken spirit beside Blanca. Silverspot is killed by an owl, Raggylug's mother drowns, Bingo dies of poison at his master's door, the Pacer leaps from a cliff to stay free, Wully is killed after attacking his master's daughter, and Redruff is caught in a snare. Vixen frees her last cub with poison.
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Вопросы о книге Wild Animals I Have Known
What is Wild Animals I Have Known about?
It is a collection of eight animal biographies by Ernest Thompson Seton: Lobo the wolf, Silverspot the crow, Raggylug the rabbit, Bingo the dog, the Springfield Fox, the Pacing Mustang, Wully the sheepdog and Redruff the partridge.
Are the stories in Wild Animals I Have Known true?
Seton says the animals were real and that Lobo, Bingo and the Mustang follow the facts closely. For others, he joined adventures of several animals of the same kind, though he says every incident comes from real life.
Why are the stories in Wild Animals I Have Known tragic?
Seton writes in his preface that the stories are tragic because they are true, since a wild animal's life always ends tragically. He also asks readers to see animals as kin with feelings and rights.
Who is Lobo in Wild Animals I Have Known?
Lobo is a huge gray wolf, called the king of the Currumpaw, who leads a small pack in northern New Mexico. He avoids poison and traps for years, and a reward is offered for his capture.
Is Wild Animals I Have Known a good book for young readers?
It suits readers who enjoy animal adventures. The tales have clear scenes, lively humor and plain language, and they teach real woodcraft, though the endings are sad and the preface says so.
Как сослаться на это издание
Seton, Ernest Thompson. Wild Animals I Have Known. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/wild-animals-i-have-known.
Seton, E. T. (2026). Wild animals I have known. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/wild-animals-i-have-known (Original work published 1898)
Seton, Ernest Thompson. Wild Animals I Have Known. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/wild-animals-i-have-known.
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