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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Choe, Jae C.     Subjects     Ants -- Behavior.     Social behavior in animals.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Choe, Jae C.       by title:      Secret lives of ants...         MARC Display

Secret lives of ants [electronic resource] / Jae Choe ; foreword by Jane Goodall ; photographs by Dan Perlman ; translated by Dan Leonard. by Choe, Jae C. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2012 Subjects Ants -- Behavior.   Social behavior in animals. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=0B758AAC-0B1B-4F26-ABC0-802A76FC9CEF This title is available online; click here to access ISBN:  1421405210 (electronic bk.) 9781421405216 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (xxvi, 156 p.) col. ill. Contents:  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. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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