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100 1 _aChoe, Jae C.
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245 1 0 _aSecret lives of antsJae Choe ; foreword by Jane Goodall ; photographs by Dan Perlman ; translated by Dan Leonard.
260 _aBaltimore :
_bJohns Hopkins University Press,
_c(c)2012.
300 _a1 online resource (xxvi, 156 pages)
_bcolor illustrations.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _aIntroduction : My first journey to the ants --
_tAnts mean business : how the futuristic economics of ants maximizes their returns --
_tEconomies of scale and rational business management : from joint ventures to multinational enterprises --
_tA 50-million-year tradition of farming : the massive underground mushroom farms of the leaf-cutter ants --
_tAnt ranchers : masters of dairy farming second only to mankind --
_tThe world's first bodyguards : standing watch for room and board --
_tThe charge of the ant brigade : the terrifying march of the army ants --
_tTalking with the ants : the clever designs of ant communication --
_tThe ants come home : sense of direction and biological clocks --
_tAnts at work : maids, nannies, laborers, soldiers --
_tCon artists of the ant world : parasites that have cracked the ants' secret code --
_tVillains and monsters of the ant world : predators and parasites --
_tNo children of their own : females in the service of an amazon queen --
_tConflict in the queendom : divine right of the queen? : or the will of the masses? --
_tPolitical conflict and international alliances : yesterday's comrade, today's enemy --
_tThe foundation myth of the Aztec ant queendom : the queens' battle for the throne --
_tWar and slavery : from full-scale slaughter to bloodless warfare --
_tEpilogue : To know them is to love them.
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650 0 _aAnts
_xBehavior.
650 0 _aSocial behavior in animals.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell