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The animal on the cover of Ambient Findability is a Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi). A rare lemur found only in Madagascar, the sifaka spends most of its time in trees, feeding on fruit, flowers, wood, bark, and leaves.

Two unusual traits distinguish sifakas from other lemurs. First, when threatened, a sifaka lets out a loud alarm call that sounds like shi-fakthis odd barking sound is where the animal gets its name. Second, the sifaka is known for its famous dance. Because the trees in the sifaka's habitat are spread out, it is sometimes forced to move across the ground from tree to tree. During these brief earthbound trips, the sifaka bipedally hops sideways and wildly waves its arms in the air. Extremely vulnerable on the ground, sifakas use this "dancing" to ward off predators.

Adam Witwer was the production editor and Linley Dolby was the copyeditor for Ambient Findability. Ann Atalla proofread the text. Colleen Gorman and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Johnna VanHoose Dinse wrote the index.

Karen Montgomery designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman, and produced the cover layout with Adobe InDesign CS using Adobe's ITC Garamond font. The cover image is from Cassell's Natural History.

David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Keith Fahlgren to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano, Jessamyn Read, and Lesley Borash using Macromedia FreeHand MX and Adobe Photoshop CS. The tip and warning icons were drawn by Christopher Bing. This colophon was written by Adam Witwer.