Discusses a variety of defenses employed by animals, including antlers, claws, odor, poison, teeth, quills, speed, leaping, inflation, radar, mimicry, and electricity.
Discusses the shelves under the world's oceans at the shoreline--the creatures that live on them, their potential for providing food for man, the dangers of pollution to shelf use, and efforts to preserve their value for the future.
Describes the largest reef on earth, its construction by billions of coral animals, life on the reef, and its human visitors from Captain Cook to today's scuba divers.