The Leafcutter Ants

Name: The Leafcutter Ants
Brand: WW Norton & Co
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By Bert Holldobler

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The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, the book provides an unforgettable tour of Earth's most evolved animal societies. Each colony of leafcutters contains as many as five million workers, all the daughters of a single queen that can live over a decade. A gigantic nest can stretch thirty feet across, rise five feet or more above the ground, and consist of hundreds of chambers that reach twenty-five feet below the ground surface. Indeed, the leafcutters have parlayed their instinctive civilization into a virtual domination of forest, grassland, and cropland-from Louisiana to Patagonia. Inspired by a section of the authors' acclaimed The Superorganism, this brilliantly illustrated work provides the ultimate explanation of what a social order with a half-billion years of animal evolution has achieved.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: illustrated
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 192
Publisher:: WW Norton & Co
Publication Date:: 2010-11-15
ISBN / EAN:: 9780393338683
Weight:: 353 g
Dimensions:: 16/21/2 cm
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]

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