SOME of the natural history nuggets Marty Crump has so carefully collated will be familiar to regular readers of Â鶹´«Ã½. No matter, her precise but jolly prose treats hummingbird nostril mites, blood-sharing vampire bats and bubble-hunting whales with such enthusiasm that it is like meeting long-lost friends.
Unusual animal relationships figure strongly in the new stuff. While mongooses use termite-mound chimneys as sleeping holes, young gobies and shrimps set up home in the same burrow. Then there are the philandering fairy wrens and gold-digging female oystercatchers that put even the most adventurous soap opera script to shame. Vastly…
