[PDF] Army Ants eBook

Author : April Pulley Sayre
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 32,95 MB
Release : 2002-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780805063530

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Depicts an army of ants as it parades through the rain forest in search of a meal.

Author : William H. Gotwald
Publisher : Comstock Publishing Associates
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780801426339

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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.

Author : Mark W. Moffett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2010-05-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 0520945417

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Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, "the Indiana Jones of entomology," takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. 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. Moffett’s spectacular close-up photographs shrink us down to size, so that we can observe ants in familiar roles; warriors, builders, big-game hunters, and slave owners. We find them creating marketplaces and assembly lines and dealing with issues we think of as uniquely human—including hygiene, recycling, and warfare. Adventures among Ants introduces some of the world’s most awe-inspiring species and offers a startling new perspective on the limits of our own perception. • Ants are world-class road builders, handling traffic problems on thoroughfares that dwarf our highway systems in their complexity • Ants with the largest societies often deploy complicated military tactics • Some ants have evolved from hunter-gatherers into farmers, domesticating other insects and growing crops for food

Author : Therese M. Shea
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1538219263

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Africanized honeybees, also known as killer bees, and army ants are both tiny animals that really strike fear in many people. In this action-packed volume, readers will follow along with a battle of the insects and decide who they think would be the ultimate victor. Readers will learn about factors such as adaptations, size, and sting. They'll use the information to make an educated guess about which insect they think would win if such a battle were to really break out. This imaginative, high-interest book is loaded with eye-catching graphics and facts that support important elementary science concepts.

Author : Walter Retan
Publisher : Cartwheel Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780590476164

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Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and habits of ants and discusses their ecological importance.

Author : Daniel J. C. Kronauer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674249399

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A richly illustrated, captivating study of army ants, nature’s preeminent social hunters. A swarm raid is one of nature’s great spectacles. In tropical rainforests around the world, army ants march in groups by the thousands to overwhelm large solitary invertebrates, along with nests of termites, wasps, and other ants. They kill and dismember their prey and carry it back to their nest, where their hungry brood devours it. They are the ultimate social hunters, demonstrating the most fascinating collective behavior. In Army Ants we see how these insects play a crucial role in promoting and sustaining the biodiversity of tropical ecosystems. The ants help keep prey communities in check while also providing nutrition for other animals. Many species depend on army ants for survival, including a multitude of social parasites, swarm-following birds, and flies. And while their hunting behavior, and the rules that govern it, are clearly impressive, army ants display collective behavior in other ways that are no less dazzling. They build living nests, called bivouacs, using their bodies to protect the queen and larvae. The ants can even construct bridges over open space or obstacles by linking to one another using their feet. These incredible feats happen without central coordination. They are the result of local interactions—self-organization that benefits the society at large. Through observations, stories, and stunning images, Daniel Kronauer brings these fascinating creatures to life. Army ants may be small, but their collective intelligence and impact on their environment are anything but.

Author : Sandra Markle
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822531968

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Learn about the amazing world of army ants.

Author : Clint Twist
Publisher : Gareth Stevens
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780836863727

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First published: Tunbridge Wells, Kent, U.K.: ticktock Media Ltd., 2006.

Author : Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0801899737

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One of the earliest New World naturalists, José Celestino Mutis began his professional life as a physician in Spain and ended it as a scientist and natural philosopher in modern-day Colombia. Drawing on new translations of Mutis's nearly forgotten writings, this fascinating story of scientific adventure in eighteenth-century South America retrieves Mutis's contributions from obscurity. In 1760, the 28-year-old Mutis—newly appointed as the personal physician of the Viceroy of the New Kingdom of Granada—embarked on a 48-year exploration of the natural world of northern South America. His thirst for knowledge led Mutis to study the region's flora, become a professor of mathematics, construct the first astronomical observatory in the Western Hemisphere, and amass one of the largest scientific libraries in the world. He translated Newton's writings and penned essays about Copernicus; lectured extensively on astronomy, geography, and meteorology; and eventually became a priest. But, as two-time Pulitzer Prize–winner Edward O. Wilson and Spanish natural history scholar José M. Gómez Durán reveal in this enjoyable and illustrative account, one of Mutis's most magnificent accomplishments involved ants. Acting at the urging of Carl Linnaeus—the father of taxonomy—shortly after he arrived in the New Kingdom of Granada, Mutis began studying the ants that swarmed everywhere. Though he lacked any entomological training, Mutis built his own classification for the species he found and named at a time when New World entomology was largely nonexistent. His unorthodox catalog of army ants, leafcutters, and other six-legged creatures found along the banks of the Magdalena provided a starting point for future study. Wilson and Durán weave a compelling, fast-paced story of ants on the march and the eighteenth-century scientist who followed them. A unique glance into the early world of science exploration, Kingdom of Ants is a delight to read and filled with intriguing information.