Army ants
Subtitle: the biology of social predation
By: William H. Gotwald, Jr.
Series: The Cornell series in arthropod biology
Publisher: Comstock Pub. Associates
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Army ants.; Insect societies.
Description: Cooperative predators, army ants in unison can attack stoutly defended social insect colonies and can hunt down and devour insects much larger than themselves. Yet from folktales to fieldnotes, the image of army ants has too often magnified their aggression and ignored their magnificent capacity for social cooperation. A veteran of thirty years of research on army ants in Africa, Malaysia, Australia, Mexico, and Trinidad, William H. Gotwald, Jr., offers the first comprehensive account of their behavioral ecology and evolution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-282) and indexes.