Animals Are Like That

Animals Are Like That! (1939) was Frank Buck's sixth book, which continued his stories of capturing exotic animals. Animals Are Like That! has entered the public domain in the United States and the full text is available online at HathiTrust.

If you should find yourself with a monkey or ape on your hands and no knowledge of what to do with it, Buck told co-author Carol Weld, just treat it like a child. And the elephant, like a man in the tropics, needs a sheltered siesta in mid-afternoon because he is susceptible to sunstroke. Monkeys pick up human ways and copy them. But you should never, never trust a tiger, any more than you should trust a crocodile.