ADVENTURES AMONG ANTS – A global safari with a cast of trillions

Inbunden bok. University of California Press. 2010. 280 sidor.

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Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, 'the Indiana Jones of entomology', takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere, Moffett recounts his entomological exploits and provides fascinating details on how ants live and how they dominate their ecosystems through strikingly human behaviors, yet at a different scale and a faster tempo.
• Moffett's spectacular close-up photographs shrink us down to size, so that we can observe ants in familiar roles; warriors, builders, big-game hunters, and slave owners. We find them creating marketplaces and assembly lines and dealing with issues we think of as uniquely human - including hygiene, recycling, and warfare.
• "Adventures among Ants" introduces some of the world's most awe-inspiring species and offers a startling new perspective on the limits of our own perception. Ants are world-class road builders, handling traffic problems on thoroughfares that dwarf our highway systems in their complexity Ants with the largest societies often deploy complicated military tactics.
• Some ants have evolved from hunter-gatherers into farmers, domesticating other insects and growing crops for food.

"As someone with a passing interest in ants and how the hive intellect works - do you agree that ants are just too intelligent? - then this book makes for a fascinating read.

I do think at times it has a bit of an identity crisis where it tries to be "pop-sci" but is a little too technical, maybe, for the man on the Clapham Omnibus, so be prepared to look up/try and remember basic biological terms that you thought you'd never encounter outside the school classroom, but with that caveat aside this book is a great introduction to the world of these fascinating little creatures."

"Think you know all about ants? Think again, and take it from Mark W. Moffett, who has traveled all over the world to study them. The world of ants seems to be a parallel universe to our own. It's rife with warfare, terrorism, traffic jams and highway infrastructure. There is freedom and servitude, disease and hygiene, tool use and teamwork. A stimulating read, with stunning photography."— - Bernd Heinrich, author of The Mind of the Raven.

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