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- A. P. Zaibin
- As a child I had held a great fascination for nature and its beings. I sensed an utterly different world in the animals. A feeling of mystery in nature was the root cause of this fascination. My exact introduction to this wonderful world of nature was when one of my friends at school (Rejul), where I was in 8th standard, gave me a book on birds written in my mother tongue, Malayalam. It was an old edition of the book by a remarkable naturalist- Prof. K. K. Neelakandan with a title ‘Keralathile Pakshikal’ (“Birds of Kerala”). He described the lives of birds in elegant prose which held my appeal. As I read final chapters of the book which described how to take bird watching as a hobby I was certain that in future I would pursue this interest and simultaneously will make a living out of it. Gradually I developed a passion for birds. It was wholly unconventional pursuit that people expected from a boy of my age. My young friends at school and home and most of the acquaintances around me ridiculed me for wandering in the field behind birds with a pocket notebook and scribbling down things .At times I was deeply disappointed…………
*****Books I like******
- Worldviews: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science by Richard Dewitt
- The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
- The Herring Gull's World by Niko Tinbergen
- The Greatest Salesman in the world by Og Mandino
- The Fall of a Sparrow by Sálim Ali
- Social Behavior in Animals by Niko Tinbergen
- Scientific Method for Ecological Research by David Ford
- 'Gasakkinde Idihasam' (in Malayalam) by O.V. Vijayan
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