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The world of the great forest

Chapter 1: The World of the Great Forest How Animals, Birds, Reptiles, Insects Talk, Think, Work, and Live
By Paul B. Du Chaillu
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A series of illustrated, animal-centered chapters set in a vast Central African forest uses anthropomorphic narration and native names to recount behaviors, life cycles, feeding, mating, conflicts, migrations, and relations among birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects. The accounts emphasize animal intelligence, sensory abilities, and survival strategies while depicting hunts, births, territorial disputes, symbioses, and encounters with humans and hunters. The work blends observational natural history with dramatized vignettes to portray ecological interdependence and the daily struggles and adaptations of forest species.

The World of the Great Forest

“Here I am, dear, waiting for you”

The
World of the Great Forest
How Animals, Birds, Reptiles, Insects Talk, Think, Work, and Live

By
Paul Du Chaillu
Author of “The Viking Age,” “The Land of the Long Night,” “Ivar the Viking,” “The Land of the Midnight Sun,” “Explorations in Equatorial Africa,” “Stories of the Gorilla Country,” “Wild Life under the Equator,” “Lost in the Jungle,” “My Apingi Kingdom,” “The Country of the Dwarfs,” etc., etc.
WITH OVER FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS
BY
C. R. KNIGHT AND J. M. GLEESON
New York
Charles Scribner’s Sons
1900
Copyright, 1900
By Charles Scribner’s Sons
UNIVERSITY PRESS · JOHN WILSON AND SON · CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.
TO
CHARLES SCRIBNER AND ARTHUR H. SCRIBNER

Dear Friends,—Remembering the uniform courtesy and consideration it has been my good fortune to experience at your hands for a series of years, and recollecting the delightful relations that have always been reciprocal between us, and that have contributed so much to my happiness, I take infinite pleasure in dedicating this volume, “The World of the Great Forest,” to you both, as a slight evidence of the sincere esteem entertained by me, an author, for you, my publishers.

PAUL DU CHAILLU.