54 ANIMAL ECOLOGY 



condemned. Such work in itself has fascinations, 

 and one may easily occupy all one's time with it. 

 From the ecological standpoint to stop with deter- 

 minations only would be like acquiring a certain 

 vocabulary, and stopping before learning how to 

 use the language. Ecological work aims to use 

 the names of species as the most concise method of 

 referring to kinds of animals whose interrelations 

 are to be described and interpreted. Taxonomy is 

 the tool. 



