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Bennet & Tiner make a worthy pair of nature enthusiasts, compiling cleverly written tid-bits on all major species of critters and plants that thrive in Ontario cities. I learned a lot about the cat-like features of foxes, or the incredible networks of fibers underlying the mushroom world. There's a roughly equal emphasis on birds, insects, mammals, reptiles & amphibians, and plants. Here's a sample of the detail, concerning "book lice": "Many other insect bibliovores are loosely referred to as 'bookworms,' including silverfish, the caterpillars of certain moths, and cigarette, drugstore and wood-boring beetle grubs. These creatures are in turn chased through the pages by crab-clawed book scorpions no bigger than the periods at the end of sentences."
