Mary Batten

A poop snack doesn’t sound appetizing but in the crowded tropical forest ecosystem, anything can be food for somebody. Bird poop is perfect food for butterflies that follow birds that follow army ants.
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Orchids that don’t produce nectar attract their bee pollinators with perfume. Male bees collect the perfumes, store them in their hind legs, and use them to attract mates.
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To keep from being eaten alive, plants produced thousands of chemical defenses, including caffeine, nicotine, cyanide, opium. Many of our medicines are derived from plant chemicals. Others we use to wake up.
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The gigantic sunfish goes to the birds to get rid of the annoying parasites on its skin. It lies on the ocean’s
surface to attract seabirds. The birds use their sharp beaks to dig out the parasites.
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WTF? Gets more Hitlerian every day!

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Years ago on a film assignment in Panama, I met American scientist Neal Griffith Smith. He had published a controversial paper on the advantage of being parasitized. Imagine!The story is in my book.
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Millions of years before humans began farming, leafcutter ants were doing it. In vast underground nests, they cultivate fungus which they eat. Edward O. Wilson called them “Earth’s ultimate superorganisms.”
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Some slave-making ants use chemical warfare to subdue their victims. Edward O. Wilson called these chemicals “propaganda substances” that put the victims in panic and confusion. Sounds like politics today!
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If you think plants can’t do
anything because they’re rooted in one place, you’d be wrong. Plants defend themselves from being eaten alive by producing natural insecticides like caffeine and nicotine.
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Orchids are the most outrageous tricksters in the plant world. Some look, smell, and feel like female wasps and bees, tricking males into trying to mate with them!
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Among ants, you’ll find some of the most spectacular symbiotic partnerships in all of nature. Slave-makers, farmers, herders, soldiers.
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Mating among plants is a problem. They’re rooted in one place and can’t move around. The solution? Seduce a third party to do your sexual bidding. Three isn’t a crowd; it’s a necessity!
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We are Stone Age people trying to adapt to the high-tech world of instant communication and lethal weapons that we have created. And we’re making a mess of it!
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We would not be who we are without our bacterial partners. They are part of us, living in our mouth, on our skin, in body openings
and our intestines. You have 10 times more bacteria in your body than you have cells in your body.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

The cruelty of this administration has no limits!

Want to know Mary Batten's Top 3 Books of 2025? Mary's top 3 reads of 2025 include Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps and two other amazing books. Discover what makes these books unmissable!

I posted my 3 favorite reads in 2025 on the Shepherd website. Authors, this is a great place to publicize your books using a
different approach. Feature your book by recommending others.
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I feel I am witnessing the murder of my country. The assassins are the president and his cabinet of incompetents who daily insult the intelligence of and display contempt for the American people with actions that threaten our health, our pocketbooks, our laws, and our lives.

Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT.

I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.

Shapiro: Censorship, using the long arm of government to silence people, to silence businesses and nonprofits, and restrict their right to free speech, that will not solve this problem. 

This administration is all
about hiding the truth, twisting the truth, denying there is any such thing as truth.

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The Pompeii worm, named after the Italian city that was wiped out by a volcano in 79 AD can withstand higher temperatures than almost any other animal—175
degrees F (79 degrees C).
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Chemosynthesis may have powered the evolution of life beyond Earth—below the surface of Mars and on Jupiter’s moon Europa.
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The flag should fly at half-mast until Congress passes gun control legislation. Charlie Kirk isn’t the only person killed by a gun yesterday. There have been 47 school shootings this year, one yesterday in Colorado.

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“The entire ocean volume circulates through hydrothermal vents every 40 million years.”
Dr. Jeffrey Hawkes
Uppsala University, Sweden
Communicating with the scientists was the best part of writing this book.
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One of the scientists I interviewed for this book, Dr. Jeffrey Hawkes, Uppsala University, Sweden, said, “Vents are like the recycling centers of the sea.”
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If he doesn’t resign, he should be impeached immediately!

They blew up a boat carrying civilians based on speculation not facts. The lawlessness of this administration is breathtaking

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Tube worms are among the strangest of vent animals. Like science fiction creatures, they have no eyes, no mouth, and no gut. The red plume at the tip of their bodies is filled with blood.
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Vent creatures have special enzymes that enable them to survive in the scalding water, toxic fluids, and extreme pressure at the ocean’s depths.
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