Publication

1995 - Comstock Pub. Associates, Ithaca, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

75,500 words, Guess

Page Count

302 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing1012480
  • Goodreads1355546

Classifications

  • DDC595.79/6
  • LCCQL568.F7 G66 1995
  • LCCQL568.F7G66 1995

Description

Cooperative predators, army ants in unison can attack stoutly defended social insect colonies and can hunt down and devour insects much larger than themselves. Yet from folktales to fieldnotes, the image of army ants has too often magnified their aggression and ignored their magnificent capacity for social cooperation. A veteran of thirty years of research on army ants in Africa, Malaysia, Australia, Mexico, and Trinidad, William H. Gotwald, Jr., offers the first comprehensive account of their behavioral ecology and evolution.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The Cornell series in arthropod biology

Other Editions

  • Army ants: the biology of social predationComstock Pub. Associates1995-01-01

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