Adventures among ants
Subtitle: a global safari with a cast of trillions
By: Mark W. Moffett
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780520261990
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Strength in numbers; title: The perfect swarm; title: Division of labor; title: Infrastructure; title: Group transport; title: Big game hunters; title: Clash of the titans; title: Notes from underground; title: Canopy empires; title: Fortified forests; title: Negotiating the physical world; title: Slaves of Sagehen Creek; title: Abduction in the afternoon; title: A fungus farmer's life; title: The origins of agriculture; title: Armies of the earth; title: The immortal society.