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The Lives of Ants (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Lives of AntsThe Lives of Ants combines natural history with molecular biology, genetics, and even the latest developments in robotics, to explore the intricately organized societies of ants, revealing the secret of the huge ecological success of these remarkable creatures, and how they cooperate, communicate, exploit other animals and even go to war.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 05 March 2010
- Format: Paperback 272 pages
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- Categories: Insects (entomology) | Wildlife: Butterflies, Other Insects & Spiders
- ISBN 13: 9780199541874 ISBN 10: 0199541876
- Sales rank: 134,354
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Full description for The Lives of Ants
Humans have long been fascinated by ants. While not necessarily brightly coloured or beautiful, ants display some remarkable characteristics that are almost unique in the animal world. They live in intricately organized societies, made up of individuals that cooperate, communicate, and divide up daily tasks. They display amazing ingenuity when it comes to building nests and other structures, finding supplies, or even exploiting other members of the animal kingdom. They are capable too of aggression and violence, of disturbing the apparent peace of their colonies and of sudden fratricidal or matricidal strife. In short, the lives of ants are among the most fascinating in the natural world. This is an account of those lives - looking at the many species of ants around the world, explaining the secret of their huge ecological success, examining the remarkable and varied behaviours that ants exhibit, and tying in molecular biology, genetics, and even cutting-edge developments in robotics, to shed light on what makes ants unique.
