TY  - BOOK
AU  - Choe,Jae C.
TI  - Secret lives of antsJae Choe ; foreword by Jane Goodall ; photographs by Dan Perlman ; translated by Dan Leonard
SN  - 9781421405216
AV  - QL568 .S437 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Ants
KW  - Behavior
KW  - Social behavior in animals
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1; 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; 2; b
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