My first journey to the ants
The economics of ant society. Ants mean business : how the futuristic economics of ants maximizes their returns ; Economies of scale and rational business management : from joint ventures to multinational enterprises ; A 50-million-year tradition of farming : the massive underground mushroom farms of the leaf-cutter ants ; Ant ranchers : masters of dairy farming second only to mankind ; The world's first bodyguards : standing watch for room and board ; The charge of the ant brigade : the terrifying march of the army ants
The culture of ant society. Talking with the ants : the clever designs of ant communication ; The ants come home : sense of direction and biological clocks ; Ants at work : maids, nannies, laborers, soldiers ; Con artists of the ant world : parasites that have cracked the ants' secret code ; Villains and monsters of the ant world : predators and parasites
The politics of ant society. No children of their own : females in the service of an Amazon queen ; Conflict in the queendom : divine right of the queen? : or, the will of the masses? ; Political conflict and international alliances : yesterday's comrade, today's enemy ; The foundation myth of the Aztec ant queendom : the queens' battle for the throne ; War and slavery : from full-scale slaughter to bloodless warfare
To know them is to love them.