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...nipping at the rump of a hyena twice its size, chases the intruder from its territory. Two young lions tear into a still struggling buffalo calf. Such violent scenes are everyday rhythms Among Predators and Prey (Sierra Club Books; 224 pages; $35), the reflections of Wildlife Photographer Hugo van Lawick. The author has a long acquaintance with rough nature: he has lived with East Africa's wild animals for a quarter-century part of the time among chimpanzees with his former wife Jane Goodall. Van Lawick's knowledgeable narrative recalls a life that included a stint covering th digs...
Savage Paradise by Hugo van Lawick (Morrow; 272 pages; $29.95) is a predator's portrait gallery, set on the golden plains of Tanzania's Serengeti. Having spent some 16 years observing and photographing wild animals in Africa, Van Lawick has a scientist's understanding of beastly behavior and a raconteur's way with anecdotes. But his long suit is photography: studies of sociable lions coping with the problems of love life and day care, graceful leopards stalking their prey, packs of hyenas engaging in gang warfare, and endearing cheetah families at play-all unique glimpses...
...Shadow of Man, Van Lawick-Goodall...
...SHADOW OF MAN by Jane van Lawick-Goodall. 297 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $10. "I saw a black shape hunched up on the ground. I hunched down myself . . . in the thick undergrowth. Then I heard a soft hoo to my right. I looked up and saw a large male directly overhead. All at once he uttered a long drawn-out wraaaai . . . one of the most savage sounds of the African forest ... I forced myself to appear uninterested and busy, eating some roots from the ground. The end of the branch above me hit my head. With a stamping and slapping...
Unlike Sunday Darwins like Robert Ardrey (African Genesis), Jane van Lawick-Goodall does not press the homosimian parallels or insist that psychocosmic mysteries can be solved by watching a bunch of monkeys in a tree. Yet the parallels are strong, and so is the reader's temptation to see in the chimpanzee a hairy mirror of mankind. A woman as well as a scientist, Jane loves her subjects and makes the reader love them too-not as clever pets but as serious and struggling individuals. All the more painful, then, to be told that throughout Africa chimpanzees are being...