Traveling With Africa's Wildlife

The book emerged from 18 different photographic safaris totaling more than a year in the bush in eastern and southern Africa. It is intended to help the reader understand what an African safari is like, become familiar with the incredible variety of wildlife, and share some of the adventures and encounters which have made those trips so enjoyable and exciting. The reader will be surrounded by a pride of roaring lions, paddle a canoe in the company of hippos and crocodiles, meet a flying snake, be charged by an elephant, hunt with cheetahs and lions, and search for some of Africa's rarest animals. Each chapter of the book condenses many encounters with either a single type of animal (lions or elephants). or a group of similar animals (small\er cats or hoofed animals). Many chapters will relate some of the important natural history, or current status, of the animal/s being discussed, but the theme which binds all of the chapters together is the stories of our encounters and interactions with the animal/s. Some of the encounters have been scary and some have been funny, but all of them illustrate the events which may occur on an African safari and the behaviors of the animals. Many of the descriptions are accompanied by original photographs which help to make the story more compelling.

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Stanley Myers, Ph.D, is a professor emeritus of psychology at Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, PA., having retired after 42 years on the faculty As part of his duties he taught a course entitled Psychology and the Environment which examined human impact on the environment. That course was sometimes taught in the classroom, but a second iteration of the course took students on safari to East Africa for a first-hand look at what humans are doing to the natural world. Those trips were among the twenty times he has been on safari in Africa. He is a member of the National Wildlife Federation, The World Wildlife Foundation, The National Geographic Society, and The Nature Conservancy. He spent sixteen years volunteering as a Docent at the good Zoo in Wheeling, WV. where he accumulated experiences which helped him to deal with and understand animals and their behaviors.