The Adventures of Daisy Duck and Woodstock

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This is a true-to-life story about how two very different birds (and a cat), brought up together, were very much part of our family. It describes how these creatures interacted and communicated with us and each other, and how they joined in with family activities in extraordinary ways. It shows how prescient they can be (how did the ducks know in advance that their sister was returning after two days lost, so that they could meet her at the gate? How did Cat know he mustn’t eat our bird when every day he caught wild birds in the garden?).

Recently, scientists studying animal behaviour have been describing animal language and behaviour in greater detail than previously. This story shows how creatures, allowed to live their lives as they wish, can choose to stay within a human environment and join in.

Born in London, just pre-war. At school, she particularly enjoyed art and later was employed by the director of the British School at Rome as his archaeological surveyor. Returning to England, she married and raised two children. When they reached secondary school-age she decided she also needed to be educated so became a student at Oxford Polytechnic. From there she progressed to take a doctorate in the Geography Department, University of Oxford, studying rates of change in landscapes using lichens and trees as indicators. Research took her world-wide, starting on Patagonian glaciers and now helping forest restoration in southern Madagascar.