New book out now – The Web of Life: A Transhimalayan Animal Adventure.

Children are our future, so we created a book to playfully teach them about the importance of the different animal species in their Himalayan ecosystem. But really the book is for people of all ages.

It presents an animal story that is based on our teams’ extensive knowledge of the local culture and the wild animal species that roam in the Transhimalayan ecosystem. The story explains the ecological role of each animal species with scientific facts to an audience of all ages in a playful manner and is accompanied by beautiful illustrations. The book is written in Tibetan, Nepali, and English to reach a wider audience in the Asian high altitudes. And it aims to help the local children improve their English and Nepali language skills (most of them speak only the local Tibetan language) as the layout of the book allows a line-by-line comparison of a particular sentence/paragraph in the three languages.

The following text from the back cover of the book gives the reader a glimpse:

Join the Ruddy Shelduck family as they take their six young chicks on an adventurous journey through the wilderness of the Transhimalayas. They meet the different wondrous wild animal species with whom they share these vast lands and learn about the important roles of each of these species in the high-altitude ecosystem. This illustrated story (with text in English, Nepali, and Tibetan) describes how different animals live together in this unique ecosystem and how their coexistence ensures the survival of a wide variety of species all intimately connected through the web of life.

If you are interested in sourcing a copy of the book, please email: geraldine.werhahn@zoo.ox.ac.uk