

He goes looking for animals alone in hazardous wilderness areas-tracking mountain goats in Colorado’s Gore Range or surprising a secret society of ravens in a canyon in Utah.

Seeking entrée into animal societies, he interprets messages left in marks on the ground and in scents on leaves and trees, and communicates with animals directly using their own language of stares, gestures, postures, sounds, scents and gaits. ) describes some of his extraordinary experiences with creatures-from wasps, red-spotted toads and hummingbirds to grizzly bears, coyotes and jaguars. In these eloquent essays, naturalist and adventurer Childs ( House of Rain
