Adventures Among Ants : : a Global Safari With a Cast of Trillions
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Strength in numbers -- The perfect swarm -- Division of labor -- Infrastructure -- Group transport -- Big game hunters -- Clash of the titans -- Notes from underground -- Canopy empires -- Fortified forests -- Negotiating the physical world -- Slaves of Sagehen Creek -- Abduction in the afternoon -- A fungus farmer's life -- The origins of agriculture -- Armies of the earth -- The immortal society.
In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere, Moffett recounts his entomological exploits and provides fascinating details on how ants live and how they dominate their ecosystems through strikingly human behaviors, yet at a different scale and a faster tempo.
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PUBLISHED
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 280 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0520261992
9780520261990
SUBJECTS
Ant communities.
Ants -- Ecology.
Ants -- Behavior.