The leafcutter ants : civilization by instinct / Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson.

The leafcutter ants : civilization by instinct / Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson.

First edition.

9780393338683 (paperback)
0393338681 (paperback)

New York : Norton, [2011]

©2011

English

xii, 160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

QL568.F7 H577 2011

595.79/6

"The Leafcutter Ants provides a tour of Earth's most evolved animal societies. Each colony of leafcutters contains as many as five million workers, all the daughters of a single queen that can live over a decade. A gigantic nest can stretch thirty feet across, rise five feet or more above the ground, and consist of hundreds of chambers that reach twenty-five feet below the ground surface. Indeed, the leafcutters have parlayed their instinctive civilization into a virtual domination of forest, grassland, and cropland from Louisiana to Patagonia. Inspired by a section of the authors' acclaimed The Superorganism, this illustrated work provides the explanation of what a social order with a half-billion years of animal evolution has achieved."--BOOK JACKET.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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