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How can you stand to do it? The poor little mouse!Grover shrugged. It's nature, he said. Nature likes the snake just as much as the mouse.

Jeanne DuPrau

How can you stand to do it? The poor little mouse!Grover shrugged. It's nature, he said. Nature likes the snake just as much as the mouse.

Tags: predators, predatory and prey, prey

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About Jeanne DuPrau

Jeanne DuPrau (born 1944 in San Francisco, California) is an American writer, best known for The Books of Ember, a series of science fiction novels for young people. She lives in Menlo Park, California.