Ant Butterflies -- Whale Hill -- Spicebush -- Getting the Jump -- One Canyon after Another -- Anting -- Hanging Gardens -- A New Color -- Sunfish -- Pillar of Life -- Chickaree Delivery -- The Sweetest Niche -- Drifters -- Lace Lichen -- Swallow-Tailed Gull -- Young Hawk -- What Fireweed Knows of Fire -- Beaked Whales -- Raising the Bridge -- The Color of Sand -- Dust to Dust -- Red Planet -- Daphnis -- Photon -- Index
Summary
"Presents a collection of vignettes from the wild, each of which describes the natural advantage of a particular organism. These true-to-life accounts are then posed in particular circumstances that illustrate the principles-commensalism, speciation-that shape the place of these organisms in their living environment"-- Provided by publisher
