CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 The Killer Ape -- 2 The Rich Smell of Meat and Wickedness -- 3 Virgin Huntresses and Bleeding Feasts -- 4 The White Stag -- 5 The Sobbing Deer -- 6 The Noise of Breaking Machinery -- 7 The Sorrows of Eohippus -- 8 The Sick Animal -- 9 The Bambi Syndrome -- 10 A Fatal Disease of Nature -- 11 The Spirit of the Beast -- 12 A View to a Death in the Morning -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX.