Secret lives of ants
| Основен автор: | Choe, Jae C. |
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| Автор-организации: | OverDrive, Inc. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English Korean |
| Публикувано: |
Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
℗♭2012.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Съдържание:
- 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.