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Can I read The Lives of Ants on EtoBox?
The Lives of Ants by Laurent Keller and Élisabeth Gordon is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Lives of Ants about?
Since Time Immemorial, Human Beings Have Been Fascinated By Ants, Amazed By Them, Intrigued And Captivated By Them. With Numerous Black-and-white Images And Eight Pages Of Color Plates, The Lives Of Ants Provides A State-of-the-art Look At What We Now Know About These Fascinating Creatures, Portraying A World That Is Rich And Full Of Surprises, One Which, Even After Decades Of Observation, Is Still Full Of Unsolved Mysteries. The Authors Illuminate The World Of The Ant, Shedding Light On Such Topics As The Ant's Impressive Abilities In Direction Finding And Quite Amazing Ingenuity When It Comes To Building Their Nests, Finding Supplies, Or Exploiting Other Members Of The Animal Kingdom. They Show, Too, That They Are Capable Of Aggression And Violence, Which Can Disturb The Apparent Peace Of Their Colonies And Embroil Them In Fratricidal Or Matricidal Strife. Even Their Sexual Arrangements Are At Times Quite Strange. In This Area, As In Many Others, They Display Marked Originality. Readers Also Discover That Ants Are Walking Bundles Of Secretory Glands (they Have About Forty Of Them), Which Enable Them To Emit Between Ten And Twenty Different Pheromones, Each Of Which Has Its Own Me
Who reads The Lives of Ants?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Laurent Keller and Élisabeth Gordon
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786612126154
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Science, Nature, Biology
- Rating
- 3.88 / 5 (99 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
