Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers Book

I am really disappointed by this book. I assumed it would be a memoir written by someone in the exotic animal training field; obviously, I realized immediately this was an incorrect assumption and instead was written by a journalist. No big deal. The big deal occurred when the author repeatedly misused scientific terms and misidentified animal species. I am neither a scientist nor am I in the veterinary or zoological fields; however, I have a knowledge of basic animal species differentiation, and it is so obnoxious to have the author use terms as synonyms which are not synonyms at all. Turtles and tortoises are not the same thing. Camels and dromedaries are not the same thing. Guano is not a synonym for droppings or excrement. I am shocked this slipped past the author and editors and can only imagine how grating it is to an actual scientist to read these sloppy mistakes. Finally, the book was full of misogynistic characterizations: women are gossipy, women are scared of insects, women are squeamish, women are easily seduced. These repetitious depictions undermined the entire premise of the novel being about a highly competitive program set in a high-risk environment. I wish I hadn't wasted my time.