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Secret Lives of Ants.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (183 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421405216
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Secret Lives of AntsDDC classification:
  • 595.79/6
LOC classification:
  • QL568.F7 C5513 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: My First Journey to the Ants -- PART I: THE ECONOMICS OF ANT SOCIETY -- 1. Ants Mean Business: How the Futuristic Economics of Ants Maximizes Their Returns -- 2. Economies of Scale and Rational Business Management: From Joint Ventures to Multinational Enterprises -- 3. A 50-Million-Year Tradition of Farming: The Massive Underground Mushroom Farms of the Leaf-cutter Ants -- 4. Ant Ranchers: Masters of Dairy Farming Second Only to Mankind -- 5. The World's First Bodyguards: Standing Watch for Room and Board -- 6. The Charge of the Ant Brigade: The Terrifying March of the Army Ants -- PART II: THE CULTURE OF ANT SOCIETY -- 7. Talking with the Ants: The Clever Designs of Ant Communication -- 8. The Ants Come Home: Sense of Direction and Biological Clocks -- 9. Ants at Work: Maids, Nannies, Laborers, Soldiers -- 10. Con Artists of the Ant World: Parasites That Have Cracked the Ants' Secret Code -- 11. Villains and Monsters of the Ant World: Predators and Parasites -- PART III: THE POLITICS OF ANT SOCIETY -- 12. No Children of Their Own: Females in the Service of an Amazon Queen -- 13. Conflict in the Queendom: Divine Right of the Queen? Or the Will of the Masses? -- 14. Political Conflict and International Alliances: Yesterday's Comrade, Today's Enemy -- 15. The Foundation Myth of the Aztec Ant Queendom: The Queens' Battle for the Throne -- 16. War and Slavery: From Full-Scale Slaughter to Bloodless Warfare -- Epilogue: To Know Them Is to Love Them.
Summary: In the words of the author, "Once you get to know them, you'll love them.".
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Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: My First Journey to the Ants -- PART I: THE ECONOMICS OF ANT SOCIETY -- 1. Ants Mean Business: How the Futuristic Economics of Ants Maximizes Their Returns -- 2. Economies of Scale and Rational Business Management: From Joint Ventures to Multinational Enterprises -- 3. A 50-Million-Year Tradition of Farming: The Massive Underground Mushroom Farms of the Leaf-cutter Ants -- 4. Ant Ranchers: Masters of Dairy Farming Second Only to Mankind -- 5. The World's First Bodyguards: Standing Watch for Room and Board -- 6. The Charge of the Ant Brigade: The Terrifying March of the Army Ants -- PART II: THE CULTURE OF ANT SOCIETY -- 7. Talking with the Ants: The Clever Designs of Ant Communication -- 8. The Ants Come Home: Sense of Direction and Biological Clocks -- 9. Ants at Work: Maids, Nannies, Laborers, Soldiers -- 10. Con Artists of the Ant World: Parasites That Have Cracked the Ants' Secret Code -- 11. Villains and Monsters of the Ant World: Predators and Parasites -- PART III: THE POLITICS OF ANT SOCIETY -- 12. No Children of Their Own: Females in the Service of an Amazon Queen -- 13. Conflict in the Queendom: Divine Right of the Queen? Or the Will of the Masses? -- 14. Political Conflict and International Alliances: Yesterday's Comrade, Today's Enemy -- 15. The Foundation Myth of the Aztec Ant Queendom: The Queens' Battle for the Throne -- 16. War and Slavery: From Full-Scale Slaughter to Bloodless Warfare -- Epilogue: To Know Them Is to Love Them.

In the words of the author, "Once you get to know them, you'll love them.".

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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