Alexander Frank Skutch - A naturalist amid tropical splendor
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1987 by the University of Iowa All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 1987
Book and jacket design by Patrick Hathcock Typesetting by G & S Typesetters, Austin, Texas Printing and binding by Malloy Lithographing, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Skutch, Alexander Frank, 1904 A naturalist amid tropical splendor.
Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. BirdsLatin AmericaBehavior. 2. BirdsTropicsBehavior. 3. Natural historyLatin America. 4. Natural historyTropics. I. Title. QL687.AIS576 1987 598.298 86-25079 ISBN 0-87745-163-x
Title page: diurnal moths, Urania fulgens, on unrolling fern frond
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Contents
Preface
vii
1. The Foundations of Tropical Splendor
1
2. A Valiant Dove
6
3. The Birth of Beauty
14
4. Castlebuilders
23
5. Parental Care and Family Life in Birds and Mammals
40
6. A Charming Thief
47
7. On Feeling Close to Nature
52
8. Curious Flowers
58
9. The Appreciation of Nature as a Unifying Power
68
10. A Village in the Treetop
74
11. A Perennial Aspiration
85
12. The Oriole-Blackbird
94
13. A Difficult Choice
101
14. The Scaly-breasted Hummingbird
106
15. Our Animal Heritage
119
16. A Bird of Stormy Heights
127
17. Musings at Birds' Nests
142
18. Versatile Leaves
148
19. The Convivial Ascetic
156
20. A South American Marsh Bird
160
21. The Message of Birds
167
22. A Mockingbird in Blue
172
23. The Lonely Vanguard
181
24. The Elusive Queo
188
25. The Growth of Caring
192
26. The Smallest Tanagers
199
27. The Emotions of Parent Birds
211
Epilogue
222
Bibliography
224
Index
226
Page vii
Preface
In the humid tropics, life reveals its constructive power as nowhere else. With continuously favorable temperature, abundant sunshine, and no lack of moisture, plants thrive in greatest profusion, and produce the most diverse forms and the most magnificent floral displays. Birds of many kinds wear the most resplendent plumage, build the greatest variety of nests, and practice the most elaborate courtship rites. Butterflies spread the most gorgeous wings as they flit through balmy air. Wasps, ants, and bees construct the greatest diversity of nests, and vast numbers of less conspicuous organisms, many still unnamed, live obscurely amid all this abundance.
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