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is home to so many animals found no where else, As the human population increases, its pressure on the environment increases even when the changes hurt the people as a result,
Durrell saw zoos as a last resort for breeding endangered species hoping they could again be released into the wild, He travels to Madagasgar to collect several species to establish breeding colonies in his zoo at Jersey, The Ayeaye, a kind of lemur, is one of them,
As in many of his books about collecting trips, this one is filled with local color, He writes about the people, the animals, the landscape and more with a dash of humor, Another aspect of this trip is his advancing age leaving him unable to do many of the things he used to do and adding some reflections on the effects of growing older.

The book is easy reading, fun reading, interesting reading, The last book Durrell published during his life about his trips to collect strange animals and save them from extinction, Animalists who complain about zoos should read books like these before they show their ignorance,

In this book I did not like Durrell's insistence on informing us in detail about his medical problems during the trip, specially those which had to do with relieving his vowels.
Gerald Durrell writes as if he is telling anecdotes while showing you pictures from his trip, It is very entertaining for a short time, but not a style I could stay with for long, I read a chapter or two at a time with long breaks or other books between them,
He is passionate about his work and the need for captive breeding schemes as a last resort for wildlife on the very brink of extinction, He is resolutely upbeat, but you could feel that he must have been close to despair at times,
The book is very informative about Madagascar and its endemic wildlife and habitats, It gets four or five for both content and good intentions, I wish I liked it more than I did, Lemurs in Madagascar

that is all, Le ayeaye est un lémurien minuscule qui survit en toutes petites colonies à Madagascar, Au début des années, Gerald Durrell s'est fixé pour mission d'en capturer quelques spécimens pour les accueillir dans son célèbre zoo de Jersey, Une expédition scientifique des plus sérieuses, . . mais qui n'empêchera pas le savant à barbiche blanche de nous faire hurler de rire au fin fond de la forêt, I'd completely forgotten what a joyous writer Gerald Durrell was knowledgable, funny, descriptive, I think this may be the last book he wrote which is very sad as it's excellent and makes me want to reread the books of his that I read years ago.
I still cant really get my head around the fact that I am going to Madagascar in aboutweeks, a trip arranged by my inlaws, Im trying to make it feel real the best way I know howreading, This book recounts Gerald Durrellsexpedition to the island nation, collecting specimens of rare and endangered animals to bring back to his zoo in England for captive breeding programs, This style of conservation feels a little dated, and Durrells prissybutgame pithhatted colonial adventurer persona gets a little tiresome at timeshes not as funny as he thinks he isbut the anecdotes that drive the book are pretty interesting.
Durrell and his intrepid team brave crumbling bridges, disintegrating roads, and vicious attack ducks to rescue gentle lemurs, tortoises, snakes, giant jumping rats that would give the Dread Pirate Roberts pause, and of course the titular ayeaye.
Durrells focus is on the animals, but he does spend some time on the Malagasy people and culture as well, if through a somewhat patronizing lens, Empecé a leerlo sin conocer nada sobre el autor ni la temática y me sorprendió gratamente, El sentido del humor y la narrativa hacen que te introduzcas en un mundo desconocido, como es la zoología, de una forma sencilla, clara y amena, Gerald Durrell travels to Madagascar with the intent to catch some creatures for conservation, That is, breeding program, with the goal of releasing endangered species back to the wild, Of course, provided that there is any habitat left, I fear that many exotic species will have their final years of existence in zoological gardens only,

Gerald is particularly interested in catching six specimens of the elusive ayeaye, This little primate is considered bad luck locally and is killed if caught and sometimes eaten, We get to join the bumpy ride across roads that bear little resemblance to anything a car can drive on, He is funny, in places, In other places, his views seem outdated, I particularly found his description of women irksome, However, the geese mistaking his manhood for a tasty morsel, was definitely a hilarious episode, Catching wild animals is perilous, even when the animal in itself is unlikely to cause any harm,

Edit: so I've checked Wikipedia and Gerald actually was part of an initiative for land conservation, "His health deteriorated rapidly after theMadagascar trip", that is, the trip he wrote about in this book, He died when he was justyears old, in, Letto grazie al gruppo Libri dal mondo,
Non avevo mai letto niente di sitelinkGerald Durrell quindi questo libro è stata una duplice scoperta perché mi ha permesso di conoscere un po' meglio il Madagascar e i suoi abitanti sia umani che non ma anche scoprire il suo operato a favore degli animali in via d'estinzione.

Ho adorato il suo stile molto autoironico e la sua capacità di descrivere le meraviglie di questi luoghi con occhio attento e mente aperta tipici di chi viaggia per fare nuovi incontri e non per confermare i propri pregiudizi.

Conclusa la lettura si ha voglia di leggere altro di Gerry,

Read thanks to the group Libri dal mondo,
This is the first book I read by sitelinkGerald Durrell and it has been a double discovery because it allowed me to learn lots of things about Madagascar and its inhabitants both humans and animals but also to find out his work to preserve endangered animals.

I loved his style, his selfmockery and his ability to describe the magnificence of these places with accurate eye and open mind typical of

people that travel to bump into new things and not to confirm their prejudices.

When the book is over, you want to read something else by Gerry, Another enjoyable installment from Gerald Durrells zoo animal gathering, The AyeAye and I When I first picked this book up in the library I thought that it was a fiction book, It wasn't until I got home that I realised it was a sort of travel book come conservation story, The book follows Gerald Durrell, his wife and team from the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, The book combines facts about Madagascar, a country which is under threat from slash and burn agriculture destroying animals habitat, The book follows the team as they search for a number of different animals, This was a really good book, well written with good anecdotes from the expeditions, Not a bad little book, demonstrates the lengths conservationists go too to protect endangered species but also how flimsy and corruptible the laws are around protecting them, Although titled the Ayeaye and I only the end is really anything to do with them, Still worth a read to get the idea of how fragile Madagascar and its eco system are and how more needs to be done to protect this creatures, This book is like if James Herriot was in Madagascar rather than the British countryside, It is very interesting from a conservation point of view, lots of adventures with animals, It is also a real curiosity because despite being written in the's it feels like it could have been writtenyears ago, It is rollicking in that way that travel writing rarely is anymore and Durrell clearly cares deeply about his mission,

You can let this book sweep you away with its charms it is quite charming and funny but at some point it will inevitably sour, Durrell writes about the Malagasy people without even a hint of concern about the fact that he is from a white country that colonized and enslaved people just like the Malagasy for hundreds of years, and that has portrayed the people of the African continent as godless savages for even longer.
It would have taken just a little bit of thought to avoid these pitfalls, Durrell is mostly respectful and delighted by the people he encounters, but when he goes wrong it can go awfully wrong, Much of his frustration, as a conservationist, is directed more towards the governments that know better but don't care, rather than the people themselves, he is close but he is not quite there.


The audio reader it has just been recorded as an audiobook for the first time is perfectly suited to the material, . Originally published in, this was Durrells last book, a record of his final animal collecting expedition and ongoing conservation efforts in Madagascar, It has his usual warm, funny writing about both people and animals, Ive seen ayeayes in his zoo at Jersey and can attest to how strange but endearing these highly rare creatures are, I love his account of his first meeting with one: it bit his walking stick, combed his beard, and finally stuck its long E, T. finger in his ear! “To allow such an astonishing and complex creature to become extinct was as unthinkable as burning a Rembrandt, turning the Sistine Chapel into a disco, or pulling down the Acropolis to make way for a Hilton.
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Durrell seems a touch patronizing about the Malagasy, but his frustration with the futility of onpaper wildlife regulations is understandable, Though the ayeaye and other species were protected, the locals either didnt know or didnt care and continued to kill them for food or because they were eating their coconuts.
He was struggling significantly with his health by the time of this trip, and mentions how tough the potholed roads were on his hips, but mostly turns his physical travails to humorous effect, like his intestinal issues on first arrival.


Favorite passages:

“Over the years I have found that certain hotels object to your keeping a baby warthog in your room, or fuss because you put snakes in the bath.
It is a shortsighted policy which will not bring them custom, in my considered opinion, One is reduced to the vulgar level of a smuggler, having, by subterfuge, to insert a creature into ones room without making the management privy to ones designs, It is a hazardous business, For example, a charming South American maid once narrowly missed having a cardiac arrest when she discovered that I was sharing my bed not with my wife or mistress which would have been acceptable but with a baby Giant anteater.
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“Malagasy is a fine, rackityclackity, ringing language which sounds not unlike someone carelessly emptying a barrel of glass marbles down a stone staircase, ”.