The author presents a series of field essays and vignettes from tropical jungles that combine careful natural-history observation with lively anecdote. Chapters trace food chains and animal interactions, describe feeding tables and nocturnal beach and forest foraging, explore mangrove tangle and arboreal sloths, and record bird life including an account of a wine-colored egg. Scientific detail and personal fieldcraft illuminate links among microorganisms, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals while conveying the rhythms, dangers and everyday dramas of jungle life.