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The Leafcutter Ants

By Bert Holldobler

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The Leafcutter Ants

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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
Number of Pages:
192
Release Date:
2010-11-15
Publication Date:
2010-11-15
Publisher:
WW Norton & Co
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0393338681
ISBN13:
9780393338683
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
353 g
Height:
158 cm
Width:
209 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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