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The animal on the cover of Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide is a turtle dove. Originally from the arid woodlands of Africa, turtle doves were once domesticated birds, but escapees from aviaries have resulted in a wide distribution over many areas, including southern Africa, eastern Asia, Europe, and North America. Today, these doves are a migratory species that tend to live in clusters in savannas and grasslands. They are also still bred in captivity and often used for scientific experiments. Currently, the turle dove population is in steady decline due to hunting and constant changes in farming practices, which deplete its food supply of weeds and shoots.

The turtle dove is brownish, slightly darker than other doves, and can be recognized by striped feathers on its neck. Its wedge-shaped tail has distinctive white borders that are highly visible when the bird takes flight. It has a black bill and red rims around the eyes.

Males and females both incubate a clutch of eggs. In captivity, female doves group together and take turns caring for their clutches. However, one female eventually adopts the chicks and nourishes them with regurgitated "dove milk."

The bird's name has nothing to do with actual turtles. The arrival of turtle doves in northern Europe at the end of each April is accompanied by a deep, cat-like purring song that sounds like "trrrr, trrrr," hence the bird's Latin name, turtur.

Matt Hutchinson was the production editor, and Derek DiMatteo was the copyeditor for Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide. Chris Downey proofread the book. Adam Witwer and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Johnna Dinse wrote the index.

Karen Montgomery designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from The Riverside Natural History, Volume IV. Karen Montgomery produced the cover layout with Adobe InDesign CS using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.

David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Keith Fahlgren from Microsoft Word to Adobe FrameMaker 5.5.6. 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 Matt Hutchinson.