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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Ethology as metaphor, done well,
This review is from: Parable of the Beast (Paperback)
Bleibtreu is the right spelling of the author's name. HIs book , three decades ago, was one of a number of studies using animal-behavior studies to illuminate "the human condition." Robert Ardrey, Desmond Morris, etc, made headlines, money, and serious intellectual mistakes by treating the analogies (extrapolations) as equations. Bleubtreu is smarter than that. And the material he gathers is wonderful -- the introductory example of the cattle tick whose concept of time is defined by its willingness to wait thirty years on the tip of a grass stalk for a cow to wander by (or something that smells a little like a cow) has stuck with me for . . . thirty years.
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Parable of the Beast by Donald Ivey (Paperback - Jan. 1969)
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