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Wild: Life death encounters with wild animals Kindle Edition
These stories span her childhood to adult encounters. They include incidents while traveling with her family to remote locations in Australia, to close calls with wild animals during biological fieldwork in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory. Other incidents happened while surfing and riding her beloved horse.
Myfanwy’s curiosity and depth of understanding the behaviour of animals, is reflected in the way she describes these contacts with wild animals. Her stories interweave a love of animals and nature, with adrenalin and adventure.
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- John said of El Toro – “Very clever and brave – El bloody Toro made me laugh aloud. What amazing bush experiences of wildness you have had – so exceedingly rare – I am jealous. I also learnt that you need agility to catch Rock Possums, so that’s one career lost to me.”
- Ben – “Great stories about spideys, I love them myself!”
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- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateOctober 4, 2021
- File size11554 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B09F8LRF97
- Publisher : Rockpossum Publishing (October 4, 2021)
- Publication date : October 4, 2021
- Language : English
- File size : 11554 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 62 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,203,039 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #6,307 in 90-Minute Biography & Memoir Short Reads
- #7,338 in Adventurer & Explorer Biographies
- #7,592 in Travel Biographies & Memoirs
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About the author
Dr Myfanwy Webb’s publications reflect her diverse career as an animal behaviourist, biologist, medical and cancer researcher. Myfanwy’s deep connection to nature and her unsatiated curiosity of how nature, things and people operate, permeates her writing. Explanations for the biology of things are sprinkled through many of her publications as are her emotional insights.
Her latest book about suicide prevention stems from her associated short article from 2019 which sustained a lot of interest (14,400 reads) with people globally. Prior to this she researched the suicide deaths of people in my home region over a ten-year period and contributed to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Suicide Deaths in Australia. She co-authored the Report to Coroner by Police officer in Event of a Possible Suicide and is instrumental in provision of lighting, fencing and Lifeline signs at a local suicide hotspot.
She is author of many book chapters about rock possums such as Mammals of Australia 3rd and its Field Companion and The Biology of Australian Possums and Gliders, 2nd Edition. Popular magazines that she has published articles in include Nature Australia, Australian Geographic and Fishing Australia. You can read a variety of her memoir and environmental stories at myfanwywebb.com.
She is presently a Conjoint Fellow in the School of Medicine at University of Newcastle, Australia and published a Review paper (Most read Journal Article for Integrative Cancer Therapies) that studied growth mechanisms of an aggressive form of breast cancer and devised a potential new anticancer therapeutic strategy that exploits these pathways using natural compounds. Future scope for this suppression-centric anticancer strategy (SCAS) is in monitoring and manipulation of our microenvironment to potentially prevent recurrence and possibly prevent primary cancer occurrence in the future.
You can find her articles and online course about how to target cancer with exercise, the mind, natural compounds and food at targetcancernaturally.com.
She completed Honours in Physiology and Pharmacology at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute before carrying out a PhD on the ecology and social behaviour of tropical rock possums. After finishing her PhD, Myfanwy developed a health functionality rating system that was subsequently adopted by the government to upgrade indigenous housing. She then worked as a Research Scientist for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to create recombinant viruses and run virus transmission studies aimed at reducing house mouse plagues via immunocontraception. More recently she has worked for the state health department (NSW Health) in mental health with a focus on suicide prevention. In the last two years after being diagnosed with cancer, she studied the growth mechanisms of an aggressive form of breast cancer and devised a potential new anticancer therapeutic strategy that exploits these pathways using natural compounds.
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The stories not only surprise with the breadth of Myf’s experience from her work as a mammal specialist, travelling and living in remote Australia, but also in her love of animals and the wilderness in general. She takes on an immersing ride surfing, fascinated by a shark attack until the reality of the risk finally hits home. ‘This is the first time in my life I have completely and absolutely maxed out on exerting my body physically.’ We are there with her, feeling that intense moment, the stress of trying to get back to shore when there are no waves to help and splashing could be the worst possible idea! Fortunately, this is followed by ‘White and pure EUPHORIA’, and she is safe on the shore. But danger was never far behind her in the bush while she studied mammals, or even when she was young, and being confronted with angry brown snakes as well as death adders, yet that didn’t seem to faze her. Although she has learnt to respect the angry brown snake a little more over time. I remember going out with her and her reptile specialist husband, Johnno, on one of his field trips to collect death adders near Darwin. My partner John and I were in the back of the ute as he drove along a road between rice fields where he would jump out from time to time and bag one, only to toss it in the back with us! One thing I learned from our early time living in the upstairs flat from them in Glebe, where they were breeding Funnel web spiders to feed his study animals – death adders – life was never dull around Myf! A photo of her in the book, smiling while a python winds itself around her neck is a classic!
Whale rescues and her surprise at the bond she formed with one, her hundreds of efforts trying to trap wild Rock-ringtail possums in Kakadu, and I know she had to wear beekeepers kit at least at times to protect her from swarms of killer mosquitos, lost in the Kimberly among ‘dodgy mineshafts’ with a ‘team of blokes’, ‘waking up in the morning, la de la de la, walking down the sandy creek bed,’ and being confronted by a wild buffalo, one of the most dangerous animals you can encounter in the bush, the scientist in her even taking in that he pawed the ground with his left foot, so perhaps one part of the 7% of ‘left-handed’ creatures! How she escaped this situation is classic. She came off less well when her horse she was riding was attacked by a dog, ending in a 15-kilometre trek with a broken arm and a one-handed drive to hospital!
“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
This quote from Alice in Wonderland seems particularly apt when I think of how Myf has crashed her way through life to contribute enormously to our understanding of the natural world, and perhaps this is how people have to be to do this work. So, it is not surprising that she has fought cancer with the same chutzpah, and now has given the world a wonderful collection of stories from her adventures to inspire new generations to get out there and go for it!