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Adventures among ants a global safari with a cast of trillions

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.

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Main Author: Moffett, Mark W.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
Subjects:
Ants > Behavior.
Ant communities.
Ants > Ecology.
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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.
Physical Description:280 p. : ill. (col. ill.) ; 27 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520261990 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520261992 (cloth : alk. paper)
Author Notes:Mark W. Moffett, Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution, is the author of The High Frontier: Exploring the Tropical Rainforest Canopy and Face to Face with Frogs. Moffett has received the Explorers Club's Lowell Thomas Award, the Distinguished Explorer Award from the Roy Chapman Andrews Society, Yale University's Poynter Fellowship for Journalism, Harvard's Bowdoin Prize for writing, and many international photography awards.

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