By Laurent Keller,Elisabeth Gordon

ISBN-10: 0199541868

ISBN-13: 9780199541867

ISBN-10: 0199541876

ISBN-13: 9780199541874

people have lengthy been fascinated about ants. whereas now not inevitably brightly colored or appealing, ants exhibit a few amazing features which are virtually specified within the animal global. They reside in intricately geared up societies, made of members that cooperate, speak, and divide up day-by-day initiatives. They demonstrate striking ingenuity by way of construction nests and different buildings, discovering provides, or perhaps exploiting different participants of the animal kingdom.
They are able too of aggression and violence, of hectic the obvious peace in their colonies and of unexpected fratricidal or matricidal strife. briefly, the lives of ants are one of the such a lot attention-grabbing within the traditional world.

This is an account of these lives - the various species of ants world wide, explaining the key in their large ecological good fortune, studying the notable and sundry behaviours that ants express, and tying in molecular biology, genetics, or even state-of-the-art advancements in robotics, to make clear what makes ants unique.

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