Empire of Ants, 9781856754910
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Ants: Ancient builders, farmers, warriors, a hidden world revealed.

Empire of Ants

the hidden worlds and extraordinary lives of earth's tiny conquerors

$37.95

  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    8 August 2022

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Summary

Empire of Ants: A Hidden World Beneath Our Feet

‘Beautifully written and filled with mind-boggling wonders’ - Dave Goulson, author of *A Sting in the Tale*

‘Thrilling, compellingly readable and paradigm-shattering’ - Charles Foster, author of *Being a Beast*

‘Both expert and entertaining’ - David Barrie, author of *Incredible Journeys*

Ants have been walking the Earth since the age of the dinosaurs. Today the…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781856754910
ISBN-10:185675491X
Author:Olaf Fritsche, Susanne Foitzik
Publisher:Octopus Publishing Group
Imprint:Gaia Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:8 August 2022
Weight:209g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 26mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Beautifully written and filled with mind-boggling wonders, Empire of Ants is a delightful tribute to the minuscule but extraordinary world of creatures that live right beneath our feet. – Dave Goulson, author of A STING IN THE TALEThrilling, compellingly readable, and paradigm-shattering. A gateway to a strange but strangely familiar society - a complex international community, ruled by stern, exotic, resonant and repercussive stories. – Charles Foster, author of BEING A BEASTBoth expert and entertaining, Empire of Ants will leave you in no doubt that these wonderfully strange little animals are among the most impressive of all our fellow creatures. – David Barrie, author of INCREDIBLE JOURNEYSAre we the sole rulers of this world? This wonderful book brings our tiny co-rulers alive via an engaging description of ants’ cities, hard work, warfare, royalty, diversity, and ecological impact. These insects may be quite different from us, but their societies are eerily similar. – Frans de Waal, author of MAMA’S LAST HUGIf you ever wanted to travel to an exotic planet filled with strange life forms - you’ve arrived. Every page of Empire of Ants brims with astonishing stories and facts that could never have been invented by a human mind. – Carl Safina, author of BECOMING WILDThis is a charming tribute to the ‘little creatures that run the world.’ A very personal selection of the many wonders discovered in the world of ants that introduces readers to their fascinating lives. – Bert Hölldobler, co-author of THE SUPERORGANISM and Pulitzer Prize–winning THE ANTSSusanne Foitzik and Olaf Fritsche have you enter a whole new universe worthy of a science fiction novel, yet it exists right at your feet. – Mark W. Moffett, author of THE HUMAN SWARM and ADVENTURES AMONG ANTSThis highly entertaining book makes it clear that Mother Nature has been having a wildly fun time moulding these social insects into an abundance of behavioural and physical expression. – Jonathan Balcombe, author of WHAT A FISH KNOWS and SUPER FLY

About The Author

Olaf Fritsche

Susanne Foitzik (Author)

Susanne Foitzik is an evolutionary biologist, behavioral scientist and international authority on ants. After completing her PhD in ant evolution and behavior and conducting postdoctoral work in the US, she became a professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Currently, she teaches at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, where she studies the behaviors of slaveholding ants and different work roles in insect colonies. Her findings have been published in over 100 scientific papers to date.

Olaf Fritsche (Author)

Olaf Fritsche is a science journalist and biophysicist with a PhD in biology. He was previously an editor at the German-language edition of Scientific American, is the author and coauthor of many books, and has been published in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines.

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