Secret lives of antsJae Choe ; foreword by Jane Goodall ; photographs by Dan Perlman ; translated by Dan Leonard.

By:

Choe, Jae C [Author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Korean Publication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 156 pages) color illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781421405216

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Electronic Books.

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QL568 .S437 2012

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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.

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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.

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