The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were created in Macromedia FreeHand 7 and Adobe Photoshop 5 by Robert Romano. This colophon was written by Nancy Kotary. Perceived as spirited or even impudent, the raven has a distinctive, hoarse, carrying call. They are excellent flyers, hovering and gliding, and are safe in flight from predators.
Ravens are scavengers and eat carrion and small live animals, as well as some plants.
They sometimes hide and store excess food, and will occasionally carry food in their feet. African raven nests, built in niches in rocks, are crafted of an underlying stick structure, covered by grass, dirt, and rocks, then smaller twigs with soft materials such as moss or rags, and finally a layer of grass or similar plant material. The raven is a popular figure, both profane and sacred, in many legends. Other ancient and medieval cultures considered the raven a symbol of virility or wisdom. An ancient Norse saga describes the use of ravens by ocean navigators as guides to land, and Norse mythology describes ravens as scouts for Odin.