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The Lives of Ants

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Humans have long been fascinated by ants. While not necessarily brightly coloured or beautiful, ants display some remarkable characteristics that are almost unique in the animal world. They live in intricately organized societies, made up of individuals that cooperate, communicate, and divide up daily tasks. They display amazing ingenuity when it comes to building nests and other structures, finding supplies, or even exploiting other members of the animal kingdom. They are capable too of aggression and violence, of disturbing the apparent peace of their colonies and of sudden fratricidal or matricidal strife. In short, the lives of ants are among the most fascinating in the natural world. This is an account of those lives - looking at the many species of ants around the world, explaining the secret of their huge ecological success, examining the remarkable and varied behaviours that ants exhibit, and tying in molecular biology, genetics, and even cutting-edge developments in robotics, to shed light on what makes ants unique.

Table of Contents:
Introduction ; AN ECOLOGICAL SUCCESS STORY ; 1. Anywhere and everywhere ; 2. On tastes and colours ; 3. The secrets of success ; 4. A huge impact on the environment ; 5. A long long story ; SOCIAL LIFE ; 6. The birth of the colony ; 7. Division of labour ; 8. Let slip the ants of war ; 9. Flexible work arrangements ; 10. Communication systems ; 11. Family models ; 12. Parasites and slave-makers ; NOWT SO RUM AS ANTS! ; 13. Army ants ; 14. We work at the weaver's trade ; 15. Navigators who never lose their way ; 16. Honeypots ; ADVANTAGEOUS LIAISONS ; 17. Colonies and their livestock ; 18. Ant trees ; 19. Attines and mushrooms getting on famously ; BLOODY PESTS! ; 20. Stand by for invaders! ; 21. Supercolonies ; KITH AND KIN ; 22. Genetic altruism and sociality ; 23. Family feuds ; 24. Nepotism or not? ; 25. Caste struggles ; 26. Anything goes ; SOCIOGENETICS ; 27. Genes and family structure ; 28. The genomics of behaviour ; 29. So what's so special about the genome of fire ants? ; HIGH-TECH ANTS ; 30. Computer modelling behaviour ; 31. Of ants and IT men ; 32. Swarm robotics ; Conclusion ; Further reading

About the Author :
Elisabeth Gordon is a freelance journalist and writer.

Review :
An extraordinary book. The Herald


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199541874
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0199541876
  • Publisher Date: 18 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Returnable: N


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