Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions [Paperback]

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. Moffetts 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 humanincluding hygiene, recycling, and warfare.Adventures among Antsintroduces some of the worlds 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

Mark W. Moffett,Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution, is the author ofThe High Frontier: Exploring the Tropical Rainforest Canopy and Face to Face with Frogs.Moffett has received the Explorers Clubs Lowell Thomas Award, the Distinguished Explorer Award from the Roy Chapman Andrews Society, Yale Universitys Poynter Fellowship for Journalism, Harvards Bowdoin Prize for writing, and many international photography awards.

Mark Moffett has been described as 'the Jane Goodall of ants.' CertainlyAdventures among Ants, with its detailed account of his fieldwork, makes an invaluable contribl³.