Contents
Illustrations
Preface
May
The Fall and Decline of a Giant
Black Plumage - Desert Heat
Goatsucker Myths?
Empress Butterflies: Hooked on Hackberry
Flash Flood
Broom-rapes, Cancer-roots, and Strangle-vetches
Freedom Fighters
May Twilight
Hands off the Gila Monster!
June
Poorwill
How to Wave to a Predator - and Get Away with It
Altruism Among Ground Squirrels
June's Saguaro
Range Wars
The Hard Lives and Hard Times of Brittlebush
Burn, Desert, Burn
The Usery Mountain Mobbers
July
How to Win Mates and Influence Enemies
Bahia Laura
Pleasant Memories
July's Saguaro
Cooperative Killers and Lovers
Of Leks and Carpenter Bees
All Used Up
July Evening
Mimics, Aggressive and Otherwise
August
Flying in the Rain
The Seasons of the Peccary
August's Saguaro
A Wolf in Vulture's Clothing
August Afternoon
Carotenoids Make the Man
A Recommendation for Scorpions
September
The Cost of Coyote Meat: An Update
A Fur Coat for Summer
Hawk Morning
The Flexible Phainopepla
The Fall of Summer
References
Index