Book
Empire of ants : the hidden worlds and extraordinary lives of earth's tiny conquerors
Publication Information
New York, NY : The Experiment, 2021.
Physical Description
327 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Uniform Title
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.