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The tapir's morning bath : mysteries of the tropical rain forest and the scientists who are trying to solve them

"One hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin asked how a rain forest could contain so many species: "What explains the riot?" The same question occupies the scientists who toil on Panama's Barro Colorado Island today. Tropical and steamy, the six-square-mile island, a locus of scientific activity since 1923, contains the best-studied rain forest in the world."

Print Book, English, 2001
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2001