Reviews for Frenemies for Life: Cheetahs and Anatolian Shepherd Dogs

The average rating for Frenemies for Life: Cheetahs and Anatolian Shepherd Dogs based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-01-13 00:00:00 Sarah Cohen This book was different than what I had expected it to be. It's full of many fascinating stories of true encounters with various sea creatures including sharks. If one can believe the author, sharks may be very different than the image he painted in Jaws. Sharks may not be as bloodthirsty for humans as we think they are. Instead they may simply be curious and sometimes they make mistakes...but those mistakes can be deadly to humans. Of course one should always be cautious. The first person accounts were interesting but I admit I didn't always know what some of these creatures looked like, like the barracuda. I had to go look it up online. Since this edition of the book is supposed to be the juvenile one, a drawing maybe would have been nice. I found the opening scenes of this book, the cage dive with great white sharks, scary. And one of the stories at the end, with the charging dolphin, startling. I guess many of these animals can be very unpredictable. And sometimes they can be dangerous but not in the way one might think. Who would ever think of a rope getting caught in the shark's teeth? Other stories were sad and touching, like with the eels. There are countless stories in here of meetings with many different species on different dives. The book contains a section on water safety. I suppose that would be useful if one goes swimming but again I think a drawing or a diagram would have been helpful to explain these different types of currents, undertows, etc to a nonswimmer. I've never heard of drown proofing before.. would these techniques work in fresh water too? Not all of the stories were interesting, like the autopsy on a shark. I did find parts of the book a tad dull.. also as someone who doesn't swim I kind of find the section on water safety sort of useless. Not everyone who reads about sharks actually goes swimming...or lives near salt water. There's no sharks in the Great Lakes. Looking at the lake and taking photos is as close as I like to get. There is a short story by the author in here called "The Day All of the Sharks Died". This tale explains in a very easy to understand way how the ocean food chain works and what happens if it's interrupted. The results are awful! Everyone should read this! It's very eye opening. How one thing is balancing and depending on another. But sharks are not monsters. The ocean needs sharks, as the above story shows. They are the garbage man who controls the population of other sea creatures.. remove them and the whole population can get out of whack. The center of the book contains black and white photos.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-01-07 00:00:00 Leslie Manes An outstanding nonfiction book about sharks and other undersea creatures encountered by the author of Jaws over many years of undersea adventures. Rating: 5 stars January 1 2020