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University of California Press
May 2010
On Sale: May 1, 2010
288 pages
ISBN: 0520261992
EAN: 9780520261990
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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. With 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 at a faster tempo. Moffett's
spectacular close-up photographs shrink us down to size, so
that we can observe ants in familiar roles: working as
farmers, warriors, builders, big-game hunters, and slave
owners. We find them in marketplaces and on assembly lines.
We discover them dealing with issues we think of as uniquely
human-from hygiene and recycling to warfare and terrorism. Adventures among Ants introduces some of the world's most
awe-inspiring species, and at the same time, offers a
startling new perspective on the limits of our own
perceptions. * Ants are world-class road builders, handling
complex traffic problems on thoroughfares that dwarf our
highway systems * Ants take slaves from conquered armies and
create societies dependent on their labor * Ants with the
largest societies often deploy complex military tactics *
Some ants have evolved from hunter-gatherers into farmers,
domesticating other animals and growing specific crops for food
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