Sexy orchids make lousy lovers & other unusual relationships

preface

Acknowledgments

1. Whatever Happened To Baby Booby?&Other Interactions among Animals of the Same Kind

Not Tonight, Honey

To Have and to Hold

You Scratch My Back, I'll Scratch Yours

Bubble Blowers, Pothole Plugs, and Other Group Hunting Roles

The Babysitters' Club

Sound the Alarm!

An Intimate Act

Whatever Happened to Baby Booby?

2. Taken To The Cleaners,& Other Interactions between Animal Species

Hunting Partners

Taken to the Cleaners

She's Got a Ticket to Ride

Houseguests, Unlike Dead Fish, Don't Always Smell in Three Days

Be It Ever So Humble

Raising the Devil's Spawn

Defense Contracts

Cow Pie No. 5

Audacious Pirates and Sneaky Burglars

3. Green, Green Plants Of Home, &Other Interactions between Animals and Plants

Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers, and Other Orchid Contrivances

A Seedy Neighborhood

Green, Green Plants of Home

Powerful Plant Products

There's the Rub

Ants and Plants

4. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, & Other Interactions with Fungi and Bacteria

Intestinal Microbes and the Gas We Pass

Deadly Dragon Drool

Mighty Mushrooms and Other Good Fungus among Us

Bombarded by Bacteria

A Cloak of Antibiotics

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Body Snatchers Revisited

Conserve Interactions, Not Just Species

Glossary

References Consulted and Suggested Reading

Index