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Author : Theodore Christian Schneirla
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Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Army-ant Life and Behavior Under Dry-season Conditions written by Theodore Christian Schneirla and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Theodore Christian Schneirla
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Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Army-ant Life and Behavior Under Dry-season Conditions [parts 3 and 4] written by Theodore Christian Schneirla and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel J. C. Kronauer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067424155X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Army Ants written by Daniel J. C. Kronauer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated, captivating study of army ants, nature’s preeminent social hunters. A swarm raid is one of nature’s great spectacles. In tropical rainforests around the world, army ants march in groups by the thousands to overwhelm large solitary invertebrates, along with nests of termites, wasps, and other ants. They kill and dismember their prey and carry it back to their nest, where their hungry brood devours it. They are the ultimate social hunters, demonstrating the most fascinating collective behavior. In Army Ants we see how these insects play a crucial role in promoting and sustaining the biodiversity of tropical ecosystems. The ants help keep prey communities in check while also providing nutrition for other animals. Many species depend on army ants for survival, including a multitude of social parasites, swarm-following birds, and flies. And while their hunting behavior, and the rules that govern it, are clearly impressive, army ants display collective behavior in other ways that are no less dazzling. They build living nests, called bivouacs, using their bodies to protect the queen and larvae. The ants can even construct bridges over open space or obstacles by linking to one another using their feet. These incredible feats happen without central coordination. They are the result of local interactions—self-organization that benefits the society at large. Through observations, stories, and stunning images, Daniel Kronauer brings these fascinating creatures to life. Army ants may be small, but their collective intelligence and impact on their environment are anything but.
Author : Bert Hölldobler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674040759
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Ants written by Bert Hölldobler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Arctic to South Africa - one finds them everywhere: Ants. Making up nearly 15% of the entire terrestrial animal biomass, ants are impressive not only in quantitative terms, they also fascinate by their highly organized and complex social system. Their caste system, the division of labor, the origin of altruistic behavior and the complex forms of chemical communication makes them the most interesting group of social organisms and the main subject for sociobiologists. Not least is their ecological importance: Ants are the premier soil turners, channelers of energy and dominatrices of the insect fauna. TOC:The importance of ants.- Classification and origins.- The colony life cycle.- Altruism and the origin of the worker caste.- Colony odor and kin recognition.- Queen numbers and domination.- Communication.- Caste and division of labor.- Social homeostasis and flexibility.- Foraging and territorial strategies.- The organization of species communities.- Symbioses among ant species.- Symbioses with other animals.- Interaction with plants.- The specialized predators.- The army ants.- The fungus growers.- The harvesters.- The weaver ants.- Collecting and culturing ants.- Glossary.- Bibliography.- Index.
Author : Lynne D. Houck
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226354569
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (545 download)
Download or read book Foundations of Animal Behavior written by Lynne D. Houck and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-08 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Darwin's work in the 1870s, Foundations of Animal Behavior selects the most important works from the discipline's first hundred years—forty-four classic papers—and presents them in facsimile, tracing the development of the field. These papers are classics because they either founded a line of investigation, established a basic method, or provided a new approach to an important research question. The papers are divided into six sections, each introduced by prominent researchers. Sections one and two cover the origins and history of the field and the emergence of basic methods and approaches. They provide a background for sections three through six, which focus on development and learning; neural and hormonal mechanisms of behavior; sensory processes, orientation, and communication; and the evolution of behavior. This outstanding collection will serve as the basis for undergraduate and graduate seminars and as a reference for researchers in animal behavior, whether they focus on ethology, behavioral ecology, comparative psychology, or anthropology. Published in association with the Animal Behavior Society
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781422372098
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 101, no. 1, 1957) written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Oyama
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262650632
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Cycles of Contingency written by Susan Oyama and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-01-24 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental debates in the biological and social sciences. Developmental systems theory (DST) offers a new conceptual framework with which to resolve such debates. DST views ontogeny as contingent cycles of interaction among a varied set of developmental resources, no one of which controls the process. These factors include DNA, cellular and organismic structure, and social and ecological interactions. DST has excited interest from a wide range of researchers, from molecular biologists to anthropologists, because of its ability to integrate evolutionary theory and other disciplines without falling into traditional oppositions.The book provides historical background to DST, recent theoretical findings on the mechanisms of heredity, applications of the DST framework to behavioral development, implications of DST for the philosophy of biology, and critical reactions to DST.
Author : Smithsonian Institution
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Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Financial Report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents for the Year Ending June 30 ... written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Hermani
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0323152163
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Social Insects V4 written by Henry Hermani and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Insects, Volume IV is the last installment of a four-volume treatise and is dedicated to the discussion on wasps and ants. Comprised of four chapters, this volume focuses on the sociality of various types of ants as their group has very diverse habits. The first chapter describes the general biology and behavior of social wasps and discusses the cyclical populations, nest associates, and communal defense of wasps. Chapter 2 introduces the broad and general overview of the biology of ants, including their behavior, food collection, and nest construction. Chapters 3 and 4 present the biology of army and fungus ants, respectively. This volume also explains how ants are defined and identified, including their colony composition and behavior. As with the previous volumes, this volume seeks to be of service to students, researchers, and scientists in various fields of research, particularly entomology, social biology, zoology, and biological science.
Author : Andrew F.G. Bourke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691044260
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Social Evolution in Ants written by Andrew F.G. Bourke and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-05 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biologists have long been intrigued and confounded by the complex issues in the evolution and ecology of the social behaviour of insects. The self-sacrifice of sterile workers in ant colonies has been particularly difficult for evolutionary biologists to explain. This text presents an overview of the current state of scientific knowledge about social evolution in ants and shows how studies on ants have contributed to an understanding of many fundamental topics in behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology.
Author : University of Kansas
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Total Pages : 1092 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The University of Kansas Science Bulletin written by University of Kansas and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Melanderia written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Revista de entomologia written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Museum of Natural History
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Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology, and anthropology.
Author : Graduate Research Center, Dallas
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Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Journal written by Graduate Research Center, Dallas and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Zoologica written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernhard Joseph Stern
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Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Science & Society written by Bernhard Joseph Stern and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Book reviews."
