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2010

Format:	Book
Author:	Moffett, Mark W.
Title:	Adventures among ants : a global safari with a cast of trillions / Mark W. Moffett.
Publisher, Date:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
Description:	280 pages : illustrations (color illustrations) ; 27 cm
Summary:	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.
Subjects:	Ants -- Behavior. Ant communities. Ants -- Ecology.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:	Strength in numbers -- The perfect swarm -- Division of labor -- Infrastructure -- Group transport -- Big game hunters -- Clash of the titans -- Notes from underground -- Canopy empires -- Fortified forests -- Negotiating the physical world -- Slaves of Sagehen Creek -- Abduction in the afternoon -- A fungus farmer's life -- The origins of agriculture -- Armies of the earth -- The immortal society.
LCCN:	2009040610
ISBN:	9780520271289 0520271289 9780520261990 0520261992
Other Number:	449860230
System Availability:	2
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	267274
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Call Number:	595.796 Moffett

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