Bert Hölldobler is Foundation Professor at Arizona State University and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. And this is definitely a wonderful and exciting book that anyone remotely interest. Not too technical and very engaging. That’s pretty impressive and gives me enough excuse to read this random book. Ants are like mini engineers, constructing tunnels that aerate the soil. ), Fascinating glimpse at extraordinary behavior. Or so I had always believed. Throughout the book you'll gain an understanding of an ant colony, how it functions, how it is divided into castes, how it controls its environment, migrates, cooperates with surrounding species through various symbioses, fights, and forages. Distilled from their monumental textbook. We’d love your help. Publisher: Harvard University Press. I have always been a bit of a junior entomologist, so when my boy got an ant farm for his birthday, I just had to find out more about ants. If you put that chemical on a living ant, other ants treat it like a corpse, and drag it to the garbage heap over and over again. Write a review. It won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1991. Download one of the Free Kindle apps to start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, and computer. Excellent! Richly illustrated and delightfully written, Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure the study of ants can offer. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. A magnificent pilgrimage through time and space. This book is so informative and reads as if you were with the myrmecologists on the explorations. While I won't amaze (or bore) you with the details here, anyone who has been around me recently can tell you that I have learned so many incredible and astounding things about ants. flag. There are sections on the evolution of ant species, and even advice about how to capture and study ants. -- Philip Morrison Scientific American Everyone should read Journey to the Ants; it is a book to read right through; I have done so twice so far. ¿alguien puede ayudarme a localizar este libro en español? There is a also a lot of discussion of various types of species in the vast and varied ant species universe, together with discussion on how they have evolved over time from wasps. Worth the read but a few of my favorite learnings: Great book, if you're looking to learn about this subject. See All Buying Options. Authors are experts in this field and well educated, they make connections with other "social animals" and most chapters are highly interesting, i found the chapters "the army ants", and the "strange ants" great. What biological traits do the most advanced social insects have? It’s amazing to read about how the social structure is sustained in ants, why it is a great way to make sure genes get passed on. That’s pretty impressive and gives me enough excuse to read this random book. I know it’s hard to believe that ants are significant creatures, especially when they march across your kitchen counter, but they really are important to the environment (as in outside!). By: Bernd Hölldobler and Edward O Wilson. It is really inexhaustible and full of unimaginable wonders. A scientific journey by myrmecologist accessible for non scientists... really enjoy reading this book! It leaves you boogled by the complexity that can be introduced by simple evolutionary rules. 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