So I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of our ecosystems, the little things, as I like to say, who run the world.
于是我决定做那些小动物的研究 它们大多可以放在我的拇指跟食指之间 而正是它们构建了我们整个生态圈的基础 它们才是世界的主人