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Author Moffett, Mark W.

Title Adventures among ants : a global safari with a cast of trillions / Mark W. Moffett.

Publication Info. Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2011.

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Note Originally published: 2010.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Travels with MyAnts; A Brief Primer on Ants; Marauder Ant, the Ultimate Omnivore; 1. Strength in Numbers; 2. The Perfect Swarm; 3. Division of Labor; 4. Infrastructure; 5. GroupTransport; African Army Ant, Raiders on the Swarm; 6. Big Game Hunters; 7. Clash of theTitans; 8. Notes from Underground; Weaver Ant, Empress of the Air; 9. Canopy Empires; 10. Fortified Forests; 11. Negotiating the PhysicalWorld; Amazon Ant, the Slavemaker; 12. Slaves of Sagehen Creek; 13. Abduction in the Afternoon; Leafcutter Ant, the Constant Gardener.
14. A Fungus Farmer's Life15. The Origins of Agriculture; Argentine Ant, the Global Invader; 16. Armies of the Earth; 17. The Immortal Society; Conclusion: FourWays of Looking at anAnt; Acknowledgments and a Note on Content; Notes; Index.
Summary Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, "the Indiana Jones of entomology," takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. 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. Moffett's spectacular close-up photographs shrink us down to size, so that we can observe.
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Subject Ants -- Behavior.
Ants -- Behavior.
Ant communities.
Ant communities.
Ants -- Ecology.
Ants -- Ecology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Moffett, Mark W. Adventures among ants. Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2011 9780520271289 (OCoLC)751795743
ISBN 0520945417 (electronic book)
9780520945418 (electronic book)
9780520271289 (paperback)
0520271289 (paperback)
0520261992 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520261990 (cloth ; alkaline paper)