You II meet 



these residents of 



the apple tree community 





The noisy killdeera. clever bird who st< 

 chips of stone to camouflage her nest. 



A praying mantis and you'll see this wei 

 insect preparing her cocoon . . . t 

 young mantids emerging ... a battle 1 

 tween mantis and grasshopper. 



A gymnastic turtle using his long neck 

 flip himself into position. (Mr. Smi 

 photographed the famed Life Magazi 

 sequence on turning turtles.) 



The hairy woodpecker whose sturdy b 

 operates like a mighty power chisel. 



The click beetle 'who wears a mask as ti 

 rifying as a witch doctor's. 



The female monarch butterfly she instir 

 tively, unerringly flies over air "hig 

 ways" from the North to the South. 



An opossum carrying her young in 

 pouch, "playing dead" when she is 

 danger. 



A white-tailed deer driven by hunger 

 leave the hills, and now a timid memb 

 of the community. 



Dozens of other animals, birds and insect* 

 and the apple tree itself half a centu 

 old, still going through its cycle of tl 

 seasons, the center around which mai 

 life activities revolve. You will see in 

 an inspiring symbol of the way all li 

 ing things are linked in a great, etern 

 chain. 



A CHANNEL PRESS BOOK 



