![]() ![]() I could feel their power and what I thought was their frustration at being locked inside these little cages.īut I would always be drawn to this one cage, with a solitary jaguar. My favorite place was the Lion House, as it was called back then-cage after cage of these big cats, roaring and vocalizing. My father recognized this pretty early, and he would take me to the Bronx Zoo. But from a very young age, I realized I could take comfort from and even speak, semifluently, to animals. So my entire childhood was filled with the feeling that I was not normal. ![]() They called it "frozen mouth" at the time. I had very, very bad speech blocks and would spasm and shake, trying to get the words out. Tell us about the young Alan Rabinowitz.įrom the earliest time I can remember, I was unable to speak the way other people speak, fluently and easily. ![]() The book begins with a moving story of a childhood encounter with a jaguar. Speaking from his home in New York, he talks about how a childhood speech impediment made him bond with jaguars, how a fur coat worn by Jackie Kennedy triggered a catastrophic decline in jaguar populations, and how looking to jaguars could help us deal with problems we face, like climate change. ![]() And he was the moving force behind identifying and securing jaguar corridors throughout Central and South America. He established the world's first jaguar sanctuary, the Cockscomb Basin Preserve, in Belize. Alan Rabinowitz, author of Jaguar: An Indomitable Beast, has devoted his life to studying and protecting jaguars. ![]()
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