People are captivated by wild animals—by their strength and their size and by the things they do to stay alive. In this illustrated book, zoologist Vladimir Dinets serves as guide to the migration of gray whales along the Pacific coast, the dancing alligators of the Everglades, the synchronized blinking of fireflies near Tennessee, swarms of feeding bats over the Mississippi River, the blue-glowing scorpions in the Southwest desert, hundreds of wintering tundra swans in New Jersey, and much more. Here too are color images of a long-eared owl, a moose, a herd of elk on the Yellowstone Plateau, and a bison covered with snow.