The main thing that I learned is to value and animals life more than I should. I used to believe that an animal was not as important to me, but after reading this book I have realized that I am wrong. Animals are no different from us humans, they too have a life and have valuables. To them, survival is valuable and I realized that we as humans harm them way too much, and can and have caused extinction. What Steve and Terri have done is dedicated their own lives to their communities and make sure every harmed animal is rescued and recovered. Not only recovering the animals, but to keep them safe, relocating them was always an option they picked. It has broadened my perspective about my personal issue of animals. Not realizing their importance and now I would love to help the nature community and do my part, by not killing or harming any living animal, or reptile. No, it did not introduce me to a culture, but it introduced to me the Australian lifestyle, their lives are definitely a lot more interesting than an average Americans. Steve mentions, " That's what we're all about at Australian Zoo-securing information so that in the event a species like the canopy goanna becomes endangered, we have the published information to ensure we can easily and effectively breed the animals so that we can release them back into the wild." What they did was capture to very rare canopy goannas, one male and one female and bred them successfully. This is what shows us that we can be positive that extinction is highly unlikely, at least in Australia it is.
Lesson Learned
Summary:
Lesson Learned - What have you learned after reading this book? Has it broadened your perspective about a difficult issue—personal or societal? Has it introduced you to a culture in another country…or an ethnic or regional culture in your own country?