Passage 1 In Praise of Family Poultry 1
Passage 2 Invite Kitty to Our House 5
Passage 3 For the Love of Companion Bird 9
Passage 4 Caring for Your Cat 13
Passage 5 The Fun of Feeding Hummingbirds 17
Passage 6 The Great Escape 21
Passage 7 Insect Aggregations:The Phenomenon Itself,Why It Occurs,and Its Implications to Us 25
Passage 8 New Insect Order Found in Southern Africa 29
Passage 9 Weed Wars 33
Passage 10 Summer's Worst Pests 37
Passage 11 How to Protect Your Fruit Trees 41
Passage 12 The Last Beach Chimp Comes to Monkey World 45
Passage 13 Backyard Wildlife:Making It Come Alive 49
Passage 14 The Incredible World of Mammals 53
Passage 15 Fall Is for Pumpkins 57
Passage 16 Protecting the Food Chain 61
Passage 17 For You,the Consumer 65
Passage 18 Short Apple Trees,Faster and Healthier 69
Passage 19 Of Fuzzy Math and"Food Security" 73
Passage 20 Coming to Terms with the Problem of Global Meat 77
Passage 21 Cattle Futures? 81
Passage 22 Fertilizer and the Future 85
Passage 23 Construction Damage:Causes and Remedies 89
Passage 24 Friendly Burial 93
Passage 25 Rethinking Higher Agricultural Education 97
Passage 26 New Farmers and New Farming 101
Passage 27 The Pros and Cons of Modern Farming 105
Passage 28 Same Bugs,New Business 109
Passage 29 Plastic Mulch:Harmful or Helpful? 113
Passage 30 Information Technology:What It Means for Agriculture—Situation and Emerging Developments 117
Key to Exercises 121