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Shedding light on the unseen world around us,
Fur, Fleas, and Flukes reveals the role parasites play in shaping the lives of wild mammals.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Of Wolves and Worms
1. Pinworms, Primates, and Porcupines: How Parasites Travelled the World
2. Stone Cold Killers: Trichinella in the Arctic
3. Who’s Your Daddy? Lice on Great Apes
4. Giants Crawl among Us: Giant Liver Flukes
5. Of Beetles and Beavers
6. Stranded Whales: A Fluke Accident?
7. How the Zebra Got Its Stripes
8. Ornaments and Parasites
9. The Night of the Vampire
10. Your Brain on Worms: Nature’s Biological Weapon
11. The Tale of the Tape: The World’s Longest Parasite
12. Death by Raccoon
13. Blood, Moths, and Tears
14. The Manchurian Parasite
15. A Ghost of a Chance
16. Sex and the Single Schistosome
17. The Trickster: Coyotes and Their Parasites
18. Fleas: The Inside Story
Conclusion: The Greatest Show on Earth
Index
About the author
Michael Stock is an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at MacEwan University. His research focuses on the study of organisms that live inside and on other living things: parasites. He is the author of
The Flying Zoo: Birds, Parasites, and the World They Share.
Summary
Shedding light on the unseen world around us, Fur, Fleas, and Flukes reveals the role parasites play in shaping the lives of wild mammals.
