The anas
This landmark work is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet. Hölldobler and Wilson review in exhaustive detail virtually all topics in the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of the ants.
Print Book, English, 1990
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1990
xii, 732 p. : il
9780674040755, 0674040759
925973889
Contenido: The importance of ants
Classification and origins
The colony life cycle
Altruism and the origin of the worker caste
Colony odor and kin recognition
Queen numbers and domination
Communication
Caste and division of labor
Social homeostasis and flexibility
Foraging strategies, territory, and population regulation
The organization of species communities
Symbioses among ant species
Symbioses with other arthropods
Symbioses between ants and plants
The specialized predators
The army ants
The fungus growers
The harvesting ants
Weaver ants
Collecting, culturing, observing
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