Cunning tricks for survival

The living world that populates our Earth today is the result of many millions of years of development. During this period of time, almost incomprehensible to us, the selection carried out its work with relentless rigor, preserving what was viable and suitable for its environment, weeding out what did not. The result of this natural selection is adaptation to the environment, the evidence of which justly amazes us. The struggle for existence is for the survival of the individual and the survival of the species. The requirements that all living things must meet are obtaining food, hiding effectively from enemies, and caring for offspring. The living being has adapted to these tasks not only in its external appearance and physiological characteristics, but also in its behavior, so much so that nowadays a separate discipline, ethology, deals with the investigation of the mysteries of behavior. And this is where we got to the point of this booklet: the astonishing and even astonishing forms of behavior of living beings, to which we can rightly apply the adjective cunning tricks. And what is even more amazing: not only animals, but also plants are capable of these clever tricks! In the hope that the reader will also be amazed at what tricks the living world is capable of, the author has selected a selection of these tricks as a taster.