The Leafcutter Ants
€21.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780393338683 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Publishing Date | 15/11/2010 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €20.66 |
| Tax | €1.24 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €21.90 |
| Availability | 1 unit in external warehouse |
Product Description
The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, the book provides an unforgettable 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 brilliantly illustrated work provides the ultimate explanation of what a social order with a half-billion years of animal evolution has achieved.