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Empire of ants : the hidden worlds and extraordinary lives of earth's tiny conquerors
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Weltmacht auf sechs Beinen. English
Title
Empire of ants : the hidden worlds and extraordinary lives of earth's tiny conquerors / Susanne Foitzik and Olaf Fritsche, translated by Ayça Türkoğlu.
ISBN
9781615197125
1615197125
9781615197132
Publication
New York, NY : The Experiment, 2021.
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
327 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Notes
Originally published in Germany as Weltmacht auf sechs Beinen by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Hamburg, in 2019.
Summary
"A world-leading ant researcher's magisterial tour of ants' superhuman, six-legged civilization"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Issued also in electronic format.
Online version: Foitzik, Susanne. Empire of ants New York, NY : The Experiment, 2021
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 14, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-316) and index.
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.
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