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Otters in the wild 野生水獭 Beguiling carnivores 欺骗性的肉食动物 A muse to poets, a mystery to scientists 诗人的灵感，科学家的谜团 Poets dig my style 诗人尽挖我的风采 Otter Country: In Search of the Wild Otter. By Miriam Darlington. 《水獭国度：搜寻野生水獭》米丽亚姆达林顿著。 Written in prose as sinuous as the creatures themselves, Otter Country is a celebration ofBritain s wild otters. These elusive animals have fascinated Miriam Darlington, a poet, sincechildhood, when she first read Ring of Bright Water, Gavin Maxwell s classic 1960 taleabout living with otters. Never mind the slippery reality it portrays, she writes, the spellof its otters took hold of me long ago and I still long to see one in the wild. 《水獭国度》是部英国野生水獭的颂典，其散文式风格如水獭自身一般流转。诗人米丽亚姆. 达林顿从她儿时第一次读到《闪亮的水环》开始, 便对这种神秘动物非常着迷，这本书是加文马克斯韦尔20世纪60年代创作的经典小说，讲述的是一个与水獭共处的故事。千万不要介意其光滑的外在她写到，水獭的魔力早已将我牢牢吸引，我现在仍然渴望能在野外看到水獭。 | 
