King Solomon's Ring

"A thorougly delightful and charming book about animal behavior – and human behavior, too." Saturday Review

Solomon, the legend goes, had a magic ring which enabled him to speak to the animals in their own language. Konrad Lorenz was gifted with a similar power of understanding the animal world. He was that rare beast, a brilliant scientist who could write (and indeed draw) beautifully. He did more than any other person to establish and popularize the study of how animals behave, receiving a Nobel Prize for his work. King Solomon's Ring, the book which brought him worldwide recognition, is a delightful treasury of observations and insights into the lives of all sorts of creatures, from jackdaws and water-shrews to dogs, cats and even wolves. This book is a wonderfully written introduction to the world of our furred and feathered friends, a world which often provides an uncanny resemblance to our own.

"As a writer (Lorenz) is endowed with a fine sense of humor, a quality too frequently missing in the writing of scientists, and he writes of his long and intimate association with the birds and beasts with charm, lightness and a felicity of style that carry the reader along with sustained and fascinated attention."
The New York Times

• A delightful treasury of observations and insights into the lives of all sorts of creatures
  
• A must for any animal-lover
• Nobel Prize winner Konrad Lorenz was a pioneer and world-renowned scientist of animal behaviour