Encounters with Animals by Gerald Durrell. Short summary

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Darrell says he was constantly interested in the behavior of animals, as well as the diversity of their habits. It was for these reasons that he was always looking to meet different members of the animal kingdom.

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Gerald writes about how he always wanted to explore the behavior of animals and the variety of their habits as well as their instincts. Because of the above-mentioned reasons, the writer constantly wanted to meet different animals.

Darrell states that even the ugliest and most horrible animal has certain attractive features. He states that a situation may arise when a person meets an animal that he does not like, but the traveler later appreciates the actions of a representative of the fauna. The latter may be an earwig, protecting with its body a nest with its young, or a spider, which has swaddled the female with a thread, so that after mating she cannot eat it.

The writer recalls an incident from his childhood. He was living in Greece at the time. One day Gerald saw a creature coming out of a stream that he had never seen before. Eventually, Darrell realized that the creature was a dragonfly.