Introduction: healthy terror -- Days of torpor, nights of sloth -- The devilbird of Nonsuch -- The cave of the bats -- Good scents -- Looking for Mr. Griz -- What's nice? Mice -- Cormorant heaven -- Acting like animals -- A mouse like a spear -- Sharks, part one: great white hunter -- Sharks, part two: how sharks got into such deep soup -- A porcupine would rather be left alone -- Notes from the underground -- Jungle days -- Sleeping with snapping turtles -- Epilogue: black hound
