Author: Mark W. Moffett Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520945417 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 288
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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: Mark W. Moffett Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520945417 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
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: Beatrice J. Bergland Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1467827800 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 62
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The author teaches us about the wisdom of ants in a very interesting and entertaining fashion. This book actually inspires the reader to want to know more about ants, and gives you a healthy respect for them. Ant B, who is the main character, has a short life span and she’s busy trying to complete her mission and purpose in The Ant World for God’s kingdom on earth. Two Bible verses refer to the ant: Proverbs 6:6 and Proverbs 30:25 The Ant World does exist. The ants can hear, they can see, and they do have a purpose. This is a children’s book for ALL of God’s children.
Author: Lloyd Shores Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1449797474 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 30
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This is a collection of bedtime stories told to my children when they were young. They wanted something new, so I invented the main character, Mr. Ant. He is an adventurous ant. Not willing to settle for normal ant life, he starts on an adventure. He makes friends, overcomes problems, and makes interesting discoveries that lead to fun and unexpected adventures. It is filled with lots of adventures, with some good morals on the side. Mr. Ant shows us that we can learn new things and have fun while learning. It shows that friendship does not depend upon being the same but upon a willingness to accept to others as they are. Sometimes being a friend is an adventure of its own.
Author: Avi Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0152055320 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 73
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Avon the snail and Edward, a take-charge ant, set off together on a journey to an undetermined destination in search of unspecified adventures.
Author: Nanny Hammarstrom Publisher: ISBN: 9781331062417 Category : Languages : en Pages : 90
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Excerpt from The Adventures of Two Ants Once, I lived in a little tiny egg; but now I am an ant and quite old. Last summer I crawled over Gunnie's leg and Biggie took me up and set me carefully in the sand. From that time I know you, and I want to tell you something about the ant country. Yes, I once lay in a little egg. Perhaps Biggie and Gunnie have also lived in little eggs, that I don't know; but I once lay in an egg in mamma's and my friend's house in a nice hole in the ground, and my nurse licked me all day long. That was what I liked, and I puffed and swelled and grew, and I wanted very much to get out. Then my shell burst and out I came. Do you want to know what I looked like? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Jan Gimlin Publisher: Archway Publishing ISBN: 1480826766 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 20
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Sometimes its hard to understand what people really mean. For example, what does it mean if someone tells you there are ants in your pants? Are those small creatures really crawling around in your pants? And how did they get there in the first place? Franz and Jethro are two brother dogs, living with a man and a woman in a house with a fenced-in yard and five acres of land. In her book The Adventures of Franz and Jethro: Ants in the Pants, author Jan Gimlin shares what happens when Jethro is told he has ants in his pants. Of course the first question is where are his pants? Being older and more experienced, Franz clues him in and then they go off to find the source of the ants. The Adventures of Franz and Jethro: Ants in the Pants is written for children between the ages of four and eight, but people of all ages will enjoy the story and illustrations. This funny tale may make you rethink well-known sayings.
Author: Wanda Jean Atwood Publisher: America Star Books ISBN: 9781629075549 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 28
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Stretch continues on new adventures in Book Three. He makes new friends and learns from each an adventure. He has another run in with people and discovers a new and interesting detail. In Chapter Two, Ants have made home in the tunnel. He hears about their lives and sometimes scary adventures. Does the ant escape the doodlebug? He meets up with a Roly Poly who likes to talk, a lot, about herself. She encourages him to find out more about himself. He searches for answers to the question: Where do worms come from? During that search he realizes the best person to go to for the truth. He learns about love when he meets a ladybug and is fascinated by her story. Stretch is excited about all his new friends and has discovered a whole new world. The excitement has his mind ticking and he wants to continue on more adventures... Just what is out there?
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