Rainer Wirth; Hubert Herz; Ronald J. Ryel; Wolfram Beyschlag; Bert Hölldobler Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG (2002) Kovakantinen kirja
Herbert Fiedler; Oliver Günther; Werner Grass; Steffen Hölldobler; Günter Hotz; K. Rüdiger Reischuk; Bernhard Seeger; Wag Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden (2000) Pehmeäkantinen kirja
W. W. Norton & Company Sivumäärä: 192 sivua Asu: Pehmeäkantinen kirja Julkaisuvuosi: 2010, 26.10.2010 (lisätietoa) Kieli: Englanti
The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, the book provides an unforgettable tour of Earth's most evolved animal societies. Each colony of leafcutters contains as many as five million workers, all the daughters of a single queen that can live over a decade. A gigantic nest can stretch thirty feet across, rise five feet or more above the ground, and consist of hundreds of chambers that reach twenty-five feet below the ground surface. Indeed, the leafcutters have parlayed their instinctive civilization into a virtual domination of forest, grassland, and cropland—from Louisiana to Patagonia. Inspired by a section of the authors' acclaimed The Superorganism, this brilliantly illustrated work provides the ultimate explanation of what a social order with a half-billion years of animal evolution has achieved.