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A very interesting story. Great for teaching children about how different parts of nature survive, and find ways to survive. The pictures stay in tune with the quiet nature of the African plains. You actually feel like you are there watching the story play out. ( )

A simple, but effective tale of how acacia bushes in Africa evolved to have thorns that house ants that annoy giraffes when they're feeding and thus keep them from eating too many leaves from one bush at a time. So how the acacia bush learned to protect itself, or, rather, how a balance was achieved between the acacia bushes and the giraffes. (Also mentions rhinoceroses as eaters of acacia bushes, but not ones that eat enough at one time to harm a bush, hence no protection was needed against them.) ( )