Friday, July 22, 2011

Adventures Among Ants



















Mark W. Moffett's Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions (2010) addresses everything you always wanted to know about ants but were afraid to ask. Are some ant colonies Maoist?  Is the Queen Mother really a queen? What does "drone" mean to you?  How do ants communicate? How about organized agriculture and mass warfare among their own kind?  Do older ants make good sentinels?  How do ants adapt to change? How do ants compare to humans and possibly alien species? Pick up a copy and wonder!

Today's Rune: Wholeness.

2 comments:

nina orlovskaya said...

Well, we call ourselves social beings, (looking from below) as well we can substitute it with a “ hive creatures”. (looking from above)

Charles Gramlich said...

I want this. I love ants. I have quite a few books about them already.