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Secret lives of ants /
"In the great naturalist tradition of E.O. Wilson, Jae Choe takes readers into a miniature world dominated by six-legged organisms. This is the world of the ant, an insect that humans, as well as most other life forms, depend upon for their very survival. Easily one of the most important animal...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Korean |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : My first journey to the ants
- Ants mean business : how the futuristic economics of ants maximizes their returns
- Economies of scale and rational business management : from joint ventures to multinational enterprises
- A 50-million-year tradition of farming : the massive underground mushroom farms of the leaf-cutter ants
- Ant ranchers : masters of dairy farming second only to mankind
- The world's first bodyguards : standing watch for room and board
- The charge of the ant brigade : the terrifying march of the army ants
- Talking with the ants : the clever designs of ant communication
- The ants come home : sense of direction and biological clocks
- Ants at work : maids, nannies, laborers, soldiers
- Con artists of the ant world : parasites that have cracked the ants' secret code
- Villains and monsters of the ant world : predators and parasites
- No children of their own : females in the service of an amazon queen
- Conflict in the queendom : divine right of the queen? : or the will of the masses?
- Political conflict and international alliances : yesterday's comrade, today's enemy
- The foundation myth of the Aztec ant queendom : the queens' battle for the throne
- War and slavery : from full-scale slaughter to bloodless warfare
- Epilogue : To know them is to love them.