Expository Essay

The book I am reading is called Killer Animals and it’s about people who have had very dangerous and sometimes fatal encounters and conflicts with deadly animals of the wild such as tigers, bears, poisonous snakes, and other deadly animals. These dangerous encounters have happen in zoos and circuses and at camping trips e.t.c. Some of the victims have even gotten diseases from being bitten by certain animals and I am going to tell you about some of those conflicts.


In this book I read about a man who was bitten by a poisonous snake it was a rattlesnake he was injected with venom and at the time he was alone but luckily about thirty minutes later a woman was taking a walk with her dog and she heard his screams for help. She found the man laying there and the snake had slithered away. She called an ambulance and when the ambulance arrived he was taken to the hospital because he had laid there so long that the skin in his hand was messed up really bad and was infected from the dirt that had got in to his cuts. Well they had to amputate his hand. He lived though.


Another encounter was with a woman who was at a zoo with her child her child was mentally challenged and they were looking at the monkeys and this one also came on television but anyway she was walking with her daughter and this lady a zoo keeper was letting the kids watch her with the baby monkey. Well something the little girl did triggered anger in the monkey a face or sound the little girl made but he snatched away from the zoo keeper and ran to the little girl and was biting her face and the little girl tried pulling away but that only made it worse after about five minutes they got the monkey if the girl and she was bleeding a lot but she was okay except for a few cuts and bruises to her face.

Well this book taught me to be careful around animals and watch what movements I make around them. And that also animals dint attack just to attack they do it because they feel threatened in some way and feel they have to protect themselves. Fortunately they girl and guy in the stories I told from the book had very good endings opposed to the endings that could have happen. I think some people that go camping or hiking or to the zoo should be aware that you are in their territory and in their eyes have a right to protect what they think is home so we should
be more respectful, considerate and careful for the sake of our lives and the animals.

Edward R. Ricciuti Killer Animals. New York The Lyons Press 2003