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Animal Parasites and Messmates

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Nature, Gardens & Animals

Animal Parasites and Messmates

Pierre Joseph Beneden

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Some animals dine at another's table without paying. Pierre van Beneden's classic sorts the freeloaders of nature: messmates that share a host's food, parasites that take without giving, and the fixed lodgers that never leave. An early and vivid account of living together in the animal world. Meet the uninvited guests of every creature.

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25 chapters

  1. 1ANIMAL PARASITES AND MESSMATES.
  2. 2P. J. VAN BENEDEN,
  3. 3INTRODUCTION.
  4. 4CHAPTER I.
  5. 5ANIMAL MESSMATES.
  6. 6CHAPTER II.
  7. 7FREE MESSMATES.
  8. 8CHAPTER III.
  9. 9FIXED MESSMATES.
  10. 10CHAPTER IV.
  11. 11MUTUALISTS.
  12. 12CHAPTER V.
  13. 13PARASITES.
  14. 14CHAPTER VI.
  15. 15PARASITES FREE DURING THEIR WHOLE LIFE.
  16. 16CHAPTER VII.
  17. 17PARASITES FREE WHILE YOUNG.
  18. 18CHAPTER VIII.

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