03246cam a2200313 4500 471160841 TxAuBib 20210101120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781980091639 1980091633 0f03d765-6370-4cc3-aad5-67e406234b28 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5515078 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Wilson, Edward O. Tales from the Ant World [Bridges Audiobook]. Recorded Books, Inc., 2020. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 149MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 149MB. Edward O. Wilson recalls his lifetime with ants, from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of Alabama to perilous journeys into the Brazilian rainforest. Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony, writes Edward O. Wilson, one of the worlds most beloved scientists. Their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg. In Tales from the Ant World, twotime Pulitzer Prize winner Wilson takes us on a myrmecological tour to such far-flung destinations as Mozambique and New Guinea, the Gulf of Mexicos Dauphin Island, and even his parents overgrown urban backyard, thrillingly relating his nine-decade-long scientific obsession with many of the Earths more than 15,000 ant species. Animating his scientific observations with illuminating personal stories, Wilson homes in on twenty-five ant species to explain how these genetically superior creatures talk, smell, and taste, and more significantly, belong to colonies that fight to determine dominance. Wryly observing that males are little more than flying sperm missiles or that ants send their old ladies into battle, Wilson eloquently relays his brushes with fire, army, and leafcutter ants, as well as more exotic species. Among them are the very rare matabele, Africas fiercest warrior ants, whose female hunters can carry up to fifteen termites in their jaw (and, as Wilson reports from personal experience, have an incredibly painful stinger); Costa Ricas Basiceros, the slowest of all ants; and New Caledonias bull ants, the most endangered of them all, which Wilson discovered in 2011 after over twenty years of presumed extinction. Tales from the Ant World is a fascinating, if not occasionally hair-raising, personal account by one of our greatest scientists and a necessary volume for any lover of the natural world. Nonfiction. Science. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-31 22:00:02. Hogan Jonathan. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1694-1/5515078-TalesFromTheAntWorld.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0f03d765-6370-4cc3-aad5-67e406234b28&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1694-1/5515078-TalesFromTheAntWorld.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0f03d765-6370-4cc3-aad5-67e406234b28&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)