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Longino said Tschinkel was able to blend science with storytelling, and noted that his work was both educational and entertaining. He wrote: “Walter takes the time to produce larger synthetic works that are actually entertaining”. Mark E. Laidre commended the book for its in-depth exploration of the underground nests built by ants.
Their ecological dominance has been examined primarily using estimates of their biomass: myrmecologist E. O. Wilson had estimated in 2009 that at any one time the total number of ants was between one and ten quadrillion (short scale) (i.e., between 10 15 and 10 16) and using this estimate he had suggested that the total biomass of all the ants ...
How ants depend on the Duroia tree for a nesting site, and in return protect the tree from plant predators and competing plants. Symbiosis: Plants and insects: Ant, aphid: 4 - Intimate Relations: How ants protect aphids from predation by ladybirds, and in return get a meal of sugary nectar. Children's favourites: Mini beasts: 1 - Invasion of ...
Journey to the Ants: a Story of Scientific Exploration is a 1994 book by the evolutionary biologist Bert Hölldobler and the biologist Edward O. Wilson.The book was written as a popularized account for the layman of the science earlier presented in their book The Ants (1990), which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1991.
The book sold more than two million copies and has been translated into more than 30 languages. [ citation needed ] A video game adaptation was released in 2001. Les Fourmis is the first novel of La Saga des Fourmis trilogy [ 1 ] (also known as La Trilogie des Fourmis (The Trilogy of the Ants), [ 2 ] followed by Le Jour des fourmis ( The Day of ...
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We Are the Ants is a young adult science fiction novel by Shaun David Hutchinson, published January 19, 2016 by Simon Pulse [1] with a 24-page companion story, "What We Pretend to Be", published on the publisher's website, Riveted, later that year. [2] The book follows Henry, whose boyfriend recently committed suicide.
The Science magazine reviewer described the book as a "mighty tome" and commented that it would "surely take its place among the greatest of all entomology books", as it was "a wonderful exploration of almost every ramification of evolutionary biology, from developmental biology to the structure of ecological communities". The illustrations are ...