Don't Get Eaten: The Dangers of Animals That Charge and Attack

by Dave Smith

Book Overview

CLICK HERE to download the chapter on cougar attacks & keep yourself safe * A little knowledge of wild critters will make your backcountry trips a whole lot more peaceful * Take-along size for a pack... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898869129
• ISBN13: 9780898869125
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.1" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

Wildlife avoidance

About me: Long-time "civilized" camping experience, but a novice to overnight hiking and camping in the wilds where things can tear you up and eat a person. Now... About this book: I appreciate the brevity and how many different kinds of animals it described. Seems like a good book. I won't know until I'm attacked!

cool

My favorite past time.. avoiding being eaten ! Great book, detailed stories.. I will live to review another day...for now.

Cougar or grizzly - I'll be prepared

I hope I never have to confront a grizzly bear or a cougar, but given there are grizzly bears near our ski condo and cougars have been seen in a local nature preserve I'm not taking chances. You probably know the basics of hanging your food in a tree and not letting bears see your cooler in your car. This little book goes way beyond the basics. With a chapter per animal, it explains animal behavior and takes you through your options. You can find out whether a bear is predatory, how to select a campsite and what a cougar does before it pounces. Be careful of those buffalo in Yellowstone - it lists the other parks where you might find them too. It also tells you about javelinas - a risk I had never considered. There is an excellent section on pepper spray. It has good statistics - like the weight of a moose or the number of people that die of rabies. Your odds of getting eaten alive are pretty low - but why take chances. As it says "Hiking in grizzly country is dangerous and that's all there is to it." Read this book - the techniques for each animal are different.