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100 1  Wilson, Edward O.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Tales from the ant world /|cEdward O. Wilson. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY  :|bLiveright Publishing Corporation, a 
       division of W.W. Norton & Company,|c[2020] 
300    227 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-215) and 
       index. 
505 00 |tOf Ants and Men: Morality and Triumph --|tThe Making of 
       a Naturalist --|tThe Right Species --|tArmy Ants --|tFire 
       Ants --|tHow Fire Ants Made Environmental History --|tAnts
       Defeat the Conquistadors --|tThe Fiercest Ants in the 
       World, and Why --|tThe Benevolent Matriarchy --|tAnts Talk
       with Smell and Taste --|tHow We Broke the Pheromone Code -
       -|tSpeaking Formic --|tAnts Are Everywhere (Almost) --
       |tHomeward Bound --|tAdventures in Myrmecology --|tThe 
       Fastest Ants in the World, and the Slowest --|tSocial 
       Parasites Are Colony Engineers --|tThe Matabele, Warrior 
       Ants of Africa --|tWar and Slavery Among the Ants --|tThe 
       Walking Dead --|tTiny Cattle Ranchers of Africa --
       |tTrapjaws versus Springtails --|tSearching for the Rare -
       -|tAn Endangered Species --|tLeafcutters, the Ultimate 
       Superorganisms --|tAnts That Lived with the Dinosaurs. 
520    "Summary Edward O. Wilson recalls his lifetime with ants-
       from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of Alabama 
       to perilous journeys into the Brazilian rainforest. " Ants
       are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted 
       against colony. . . . Their clashes dwarf Waterloo and 
       Gettysburg," writes Edward O. Wilson in his most finely 
       observed work in decades. In a myrmecological tour to such
       far-flung destinations as Mozambique and New Guinea, the 
       Gulf of Mexico's Dauphin Island and even his parents' 
       overgrown yard back in Alabama, Wilson thrillingly evokes 
       his nine-decade-long scientific obsession with more than 
       15,000 ant species. Wryly observing that "males are little
       more than flying sperm missiles" or that ants send their 
       "little old ladies into battle," Wilson eloquently relays 
       his brushes with fire, army, and leafcutter ants, as well 
       as more exotic species: the Matabele, Africa's fiercest 
       warrior ants; Costa Rica's Basiceros, the slowest ants in 
       the world; and New Caledonia's Myrmecia apicalis, the most
       endangered of them all. A personal account by one of our 
       greatest scientists, Tales from the Ant World is an 
       indispensable volume for any lover of the natural world"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Ants. 
650  0 Ants|xBehavior.