Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America
Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America
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Ernst Mayr Combines excellent science, often based on original observations, with a warm sympathy for creatures big and small. A worthy successor to the writings of the great naturalists of the American tropics. I know of no better introduction to tropical biology.
Newsweek Tropical Nature...seeks to provoke curiosity about the forests -- not just provide facts about them -- and succeeds splendidly....Tropical Nature evokes the magic and wonder of a world completely contained within itself.
Smithsonian It invites an appreciation of biology as few other books do and does so with extraordinary grace and humor.
Philadelphia Inquirer ...one of the best natural-history books in recent years. Lyrical, richly detailed and delightful to read.
Scientific American In 17 chapters, each a brief essay on tropical nature observed, these two young field biologists have made a model of contemporary natural history, cheerfully speculative, concerned as much with large pattern as with diversity, chemically informed, thoroughly ecological and Darwinian to the core.
A look at the natural history of tropical rain forests in South America, covers insects, birds, animals, and plants