Adventures among Ants by Mark W. Moffett - 9780520271289

Name: Adventures among Ants by Mark W. Moffett - 9780520271289
Brand: University of California Press

University of California Press

Adventures among AntsA Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions\nAuthor(s): Mark W. Moffett\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of California Press, United States\nImprint: University of California Press\nISBN-13: 9780520271289, 978-0520271289\nSynopsis\nIntrepid 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 d.