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Each of the many featured mammals gets a similarly detailed account of it's daily schedule, body language, feeding habits, sex life, it's degree of obsession with social status, its parenting style, grooming, use of feces and urine, it's strategies of survival. The book reads as a stream of facts, but the facts accumulate into a portrait. You are left with a feel for the conditions under which each animal lives and the terrors it faces every day.
