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Adventures among Ants
A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions
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Takes us around the globe on a colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere, this book recounts the author's entomological exploits and provides details on how ants live and how they dominate their ecosystems through strikingly human behaviors.
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Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, "the Indiana Jones of entomology," takes us around the globe on a strange and colourful journey in search of the hidden world of ants.
In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere, Moffett recounts his entomological exploits and provides fascinating details on how ants live and how they dominate their ecosystems through strikingly human behaviours, yet at a different scale and a faster tempo.
Moffett's spectacular close-up photographs shrink us down to size, so that we can observe ants in familiar roles: warriors, builders, big-game hunters, and slave owners. We find them creating marketplaces and assembly lines and dealing with issues we think of as uniquely human, including hygiene, recycling, and warfare.
Adventures among Ants introduces some of the world's most awe-inspiring species and offers a startling new perspective on the limits of our own perception.
Ants are world-class road builders, handling traffic problems on thoroughfares that dwarf our highway systems in their complexity.
Ants with the largest societies often deploy complicated military tactics.
Some ants have evolved from hunter-gatherers into farmers, domesticating other insects and growing crops for food.
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Mark W. Moffett's Adventures among Ants is celebrated for its dynamic writing style and captivating insights into ant societies, often likened to human societies' complexities. The author combines scientific expertise with storytelling flair, making ant life both fascinating and accessible. Reviewers appreciate its potential to engage a diverse audience through a combination of detailed photographs and engaging narratives.
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ISBN: 9780520271289
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 December 2011
Country: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Illustration: 61 color illustrations, 1 b-w photograph, 1 line illustration
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 178.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 862g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Mark W. Moffett, Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution, is the author of The High Frontier: Exploring the Tropical Rainforest Canopy and Face to Face with Frogs. Moffett has received the Explorers Club's Lowell Thomas Award, the Distinguished Explorer Award from the Roy Chapman Andrews Society, Yale University's Poynter Fellowship for Journalism, Harvard's Bowdoin Prize for writing, and many international photography awards.
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