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    Jim's World of Creatures
    Jim's World of Creatures
    Jim's World of Creatures
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    Jim's World of Creatures

    By Jim Emerton

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    Jim Emerton is a philosopher, a poet and a nature lover as well as an internationally-known pigeon racing expert. His travels around the world and his explorations of the rural environment near his home have given him endless food for thought about the natural world. These little pieces are his musings about creatures of all kinds and sizes, from the exotic to the familiar, he has encountered on his travels. There is something here for readers of all ages.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMereo Books
    Release dateMar 13, 2017
    ISBN9781861517463
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      Jim's World of Creatures - Jim Emerton

      Copyright ©2016

      Jim Emerton has asserted his right under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

      Published by Mereo

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      ISBN: 978-1-86151-746-3

      Table of Contents

      Nature

      ALLIGATOR

      ANT

      APE

      ANTELOPE

      BAT

      BEE

      BEAR

      BUTTERFLY

      CATERPILLAR

      BEETLES AND BUGS

      CAT

      CURLEW

      CRANE

      COW

      DOG

      DALMATIAN

      DUCK

      DEER

      DODO

      DINOSAUR

      EAGLE

      EEL

      ELEPHANT

      FALCON

      FISH

      FIREFLY

      FIREFINCH

      FOX

      FOXHOUND

      FROG

      GIRAFFE

      GOLDEN ORIOLE

      GOOSE

      GORILLA

      GOAT

      HARE

      HEDGEHOG

      HUMMINGBIRD HAWK MOTH

      IBIS

      INSECT

      JAGUAR

      JAY

      KANGAROO

      KESTREL

      KINGFISHER

      LIZARD

      LION

      LYNX

      MONGOOSE

      MONKEY

      MOTH

      NIGHTJAR

      NEWT

      NIGHTINGALE

      OCTOPUS

      ORANGUTAN

      OWL

      PARASITE

      PARROT

      PEACOCK

      PENGUIN

      PIGEON

      QUAIL

      RABBIT

      RAT

      RAVEN

      ROBIN

      SHREW

      SPARROW

      STOAT

      SKYLARK

      SNAKE

      SWALLOW

      TERRIER

      THRUSH

      TIGER

      TORTOISE

      TURKEY

      TURTLE DOVE

      VAMPIRE BAT

      VOLE

      VULTURE

      WARBLER

      WASP

      WOLF

      WORM

      XEROPHYTE

      YUCCA

      ZEBRA

      Jim’s World of Creatures is a collection of thoughts and jottings about the many creatures, from ants to antelopes, Jim has encountered in his long and varied life. Designed to entertain readers of all ages.

      Nature

      Nature is the living God

      Forms us, shapes and takes us

      There is no start, no finish Its power will never diminish

      Wise man does not bother

      He knows his centre, the Earth Mother

      The death of a spider, firefly burned

      The wheel of life has always turned.

      ALLIGATOR

      Perched on a thunderous V8-powered airboat, we glided over the Florida Everglades. The air was alive with excitement as we spied an alligator’s prehistoric nostrils protruding from the water surface. They belonged to a large specimen of the top predator of this vast ecosystem, I reflected as we drifted in towards those menacing alligator eyes. The paradox lay in the reality of the beasts consuming the marshmallows we tossed in gay abandon from the boat.

      ANT

      Industrious and admirable, with a remarkable work ethic, the ant is admired by man for its tenacity and social organisation. My life has been touched by them, and I have felt the venom from red ants, black ants and green ants. The giant ant of film fantasy inspires fear and awe in the minds of men. I recall the time when scaling a rock in the Peak District, I broke out into a spontaneous dance as I realised that my feet were covered in a swarm of the flying insects.

      Ants behave as one organism within the colony, yet each is an individual, like a metaphor for human society. Within global ecosystems they are as important as humanity itself. Imagine one taking honey from your eyelids!

      APE

      As the murky

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