About the book: year / While pursuing dangerous game, a hunter sometimes discovers that he has unwittingly switched roles with his prey and become the victim. Many wild animals have the cunning necessary for ambushes, such as the killer jaguar of Mato Grosso, which hid its own trail to confuse and kill hunting dogs with a single blow of its claws, always killing the last dog in the pack first. And the robber elephant Dabi, who had developed a nasty habit of tearing limbs off his human pursuers. Man is, of course, the most cunning of all ambushers, a fact I pondered carefully as I walked along the dark forest path. It was an ideal place for an ambush; and I knew it was planned this way.