Living The Wild Life. Thoughts & stories from a researcher's life in Kruger National Park. Ian Whyte

2020 (reprinted). Softcover, 432 pages. Very good condition. Book dealer's rubber stamp in front. The front cover shows minor signs of handling. Tightly bound; clean pages. 

Dr Whyte is a Kruger and Conservation legend and has contributed some sensible facts to our forums in the past! His and Dr Smuts' lion census in Kruger remains the most comprehensive and eye-opening one yet, and revealed significantly greater numbers than previously thought.

Ian Whyte was permanently engaged with wildlife research in the Kruger National Park for 37 years between 1970 and 2007. He was involved with research on lions for many years and was awarded an MSc degree for his studies on lions. He was later awarded a PhD for studies on elephants. But this is not a scientific book. It is rather a chronicle of his time in Kruger with many stories and fascinating insights into the functioning of Krugers ecosystems, the animals, and the people involved. But mostly it is a collection of stories about interactions with the animals with which he worked including lions, elephants, black rhinos, buffaloes, hippos as well as some of leopards, snakes and birds.