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Book

Empire of ants : the hidden worlds and extraordinary lives of earth's tiny conquerors

Call Number

  • 595.796 F659 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York, NY : The Experiment, 2021.

Physical Description

327 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Summary

"A world-leading ant researcher's magisterial tour of ants' superhuman, six-legged civilization"--

Notes

Originally published in Germany as Weltmacht auf sechs Beinen by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Hamburg, in 2019.

Contents

  • Small but mighty
  • Take me to your leader!
  • The birth of a colony
  • Effective anarchy
  • Communicative sensuality
  • Finely tuned navigation
  • Savage hordes
  • A garden for a city of millions
  • A treehouse for the nation
  • Milking it: ants and their livestock
  • On parasites and slave-makers
  • Physician, heal thyself
  • The path to world domination
  • Crazy critters.

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