| Acknowledgments | vii |
| Mutual Injury, Mutual Aid: Patterns in Coevolution | 1 |
| Self-Defense: Barbed Wire and Bodyguards | 9 |
| Self-Defense: Fleeing from the Wrath to Come | 25 |
| Self-Defense: Repellents, Poisons, and Contraceptives | 33 |
| Self-Defense: One Man's Meat Is Another Man's Poison | 53 |
| Lilies of the Field: Flowers and Cross-Pollination | 75 |
| How Doth the Little Busy Bee: Honeybees, Bumblebees, and Wasps as Pollinators | 99 |
| Hummers, Creepers, and Fly-by-Nights: Warm-Blooded Pollinators | 119 |
| Children, Go Where I Send Thee: Animal-Aided Plant Dispersal | 139 |
| Whither Thou Goest: Long-Term Animal-Plant Symbioses | 161 |
| Further Reading | 177 |
| Index | 205 |