About boars, beavers and desmans

What does a wild boar do in the dense thickets when no one sees it? How does a beaver family prepare for winter? Is it true that a desman's tail smells like lilies of the valley? Nadezhda Pankova works and lives in the forest. Regularly - in waders in the summer, on skis in the winter - she walks the territory, checks camera traps, launches a quadcopter. Sometimes she even has to sit in a tree, persuading an anxious boar mother to let her through. From Nadezhda's field notes and sketches, this book was born - a documentary series, a real guide to the world of the protected forest. The short stories are united by overarching plots: the author describes her work in the reserve, accompanying a quite artistic narrative about her favorite representatives of animal families with popular excursions into zoology. About the author: Nadezhda Pankova is a zoologist, candidate of biological sciences, research associate at the Oka Reserve, and also a writer and artist - she draws illustrations for her texts herself.