King Solomon's Ring: New light on animal ways (Routledge Classics)

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Rashi is an ancient typeface dating back to the 15th century, named after the medieval Jewish scholar who lived in France. Before I read this book I thought I knew a lot about animal behavior so I was shocked by how much I learned. Lo consiglio agli amanti degli animali e per tutti coloro che desiderano gettarsi nelle braccia della natura.Believe me, I am not mistakenly assigning human properties to animals: on the contrary, I am showing you what an enormous animal inheritance remains in man, to this day. it": the ring] and placing one wing on the earth and one on the sky he hurled him four hundred parasangs.

In a variant of the tale of the ring of Polycrates from Herodotus, the demon eventually threw the ring into the sea, where it was swallowed by a fish, caught by a charitable fisherman, who unknowingly fed it to the displaced Solomon, restoring him to power. Ammetto che, estrapolato dal contesto delle inibizioni sociali in cui Lorenz lo inserisce, il paragrafo possa forse sembrare povero, in un certo senso incompleto.Charmingly illustrated by Lorenz himself, King Solomon's Ring 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. Composed of various ancient letters, names of angels and verses surrounding a star design, this seal is truly unique. The Seal of Solomon or Ring of Solomon ( Hebrew: חותם שלמה‎, Ḥotam Shlomo; Arabic: خاتم سليمان, Khātam Sulaymān; Turkish: Mühr-ü Süleyman) is the legendary signet ring attributed to the Israelite king Solomon in medieval mystical traditions, from which it developed in parallel within Jewish mysticism, Islamic mysticism and Western occultism. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. 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.

Mi ricordo ancora quando mio padre mi parlava di questo libro quando ero bambina, come pilastro alla base del suo interesse per gli animali e, poi, per la scienza in generale. He explained that one of his principles for studying animal behavior was to study them in the wild and not in captivity since that so strongly impacted their behavior.

Lorenz claimed to have achieved this feat of communication with several species, by raising them in and around his home and observing their behaviour. Non ha scatenato in me alcun interesse per la materia, trovando molto noiose le descrizioni del comportamento degli animali e le sue stesse considerazioni personali, poco interessanti e a tratti riconducibili a quello che era il modo di pensare di quel periodo.