Buffalo Jake and the Last Animal Crusade
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They were having a nice time remembering the events of the Celebration when Buffalo Jake came to a sudden stop. He blinked and squinted trying to make out the details of what he could not believe he was seeing. Jake looked back at Panda Kim Ha with a troubled expression on his face. Kim Ha climbed on top of Jake’s neck for a better view. It was a brutally ruthless sight. In the distance, there was a group of chakeedas chasing down rabbears and ripping their legs off and slashing their bodies open. The chakeedas were leaving the severely wounded rabbears bleeding on the ground to die as they chased after other rabbears to kill them for the sheer joy of killing. Even from this distance, one could hear the hideous laughter pouring from the chakeedas’ smiling faces. It was as though they were infected with some insidious disease that robbed them of their animality. Buffalo Jake charged ahead. When they arrived at the site of the attack, Jake reared up on his hind legs, raising his mighty body high in the air, and let out a deafening, pain-filled scream. The power of his anguished cry was so awesome that animals across the prairie could feel its vibration hit their bodies. It was hard to believe it was coming from a single beast. Kim Ha covered her ears with her paws to try to escape the deafening sound. It seemed to go on and on, echoing off the sky and bouncing back to earth. When his cry subsided, it seemed the entire world had fallen silent. All Kim Ha could hear was the ringing in her ears. And soon even that faded to absolute silence. Not even the wind dared rustle a leaf for fear of Buffalo Jake's wrath. The buffalo lowered his head and did not move. He stood perfectly still. A long moment past, then another. No one moved. The chakeedas stood completely still, shocked into silence. Kim Ha felt the rise and fall of Buffalo Jake’s breath and her own heart beating. Another long moment passed. The soft sound of the dying rabbears whimpering rose above the silence. She desperately wanted for Jake to do something to help them, but she said nothing. She was still too awestruck by his mighty power. He stared ahead with such intensity, Kim Ha thought he might kill the chakeedas by just the sheer force of his will. She did not know what he was waiting for, but she dared not move or speak for fear of disturbing his intense concentration. In the distance, far beyond where the chakeedas stood, Kim Ha could see a massive cloud of dust building up along the entire horizon. It kept building until it cast an erie haze over the setting sun--
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About the Book
In 1995, an American biologist working in China made
a discovery that will forever alter the way we think about animals. He discovered that pandas have a paw print
language that they use to leave messages for other pandas. His research has drawn so much attention,
the first translation of the paw print language is being published in this
book.
After spending years deciphering the paw print
language, he found a cave in a remote part of the Lingshan Mountains of China
in which the pandas had made extensive paw print markings in soft
sandstone. This book is a translation
of the story written by the pandas more than 80,000 years ago about a great
conflict with a species that almost wiped out life on earth.
The paw print writings describe a great crusade by the animals to restore the web of life before its deterioration destroys them all. We may owe our own existence to the heroic efforts of animals more than 80,000 years ago who prevented the destruction of the planet. Anyone who reads this book will never be able to think the same way about animals, or ourselves, again.
About the Author
Home for Joe Trojan is on the Marina Peninsula in Los Angeles, California where he actually enjoys swimming in the cold Pacific Ocean in the early morning when most sane people are still wrapped-up nice and cozy in their beds. His favorite hobby of the moment is dragging his friends to karaoke where he makes up for his lack of talent by turning up the echo and singing very loudly. He says he wrote Buffalo Jake for the sheer joy of it. Most of it was written in the first thirty minutes after waking up when his dream state and reality were still all tangled together. He says Buffalo Jake should come with a warning label because it has hidden political messages in it that can only be deciphered by reading the entire book backwards. He wants his epitaph to read: "Self-Amusing". On the serious side, Joe Trojan received his B.S. degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Southern California in 1985 where he studied molecular biology. He graduated from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 1988. He is a registered patent attorney who by the age of 37, had built his own law firm in Beverly Hills employing five attorneys specializing in biotechnological and mechanical inventions. He has extensive experience as lead counsel in federal trials and appeals in cases involving intellectual property rights. He donates his time to the California Museum of Science and Industry to assist the Museum with intellectual property issues, and he has successfully sued in federal court to prevent the destruction of public murals at no charge to the artists.