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Tales from the ant world / (Record no. 237074)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field zzv052 b2008528
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field DLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20210219113412.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 200423s2020 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2020017595
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781631495564
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number CPL
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency DNAL/DLC
Language of cataloging eng
Description conventions rda
Transcribing agency DLC
Modifying agency GCmBT
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042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE
Authentication code pcc
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number QL568 .F7
Item number W557 2020
099 ## - LOCAL FREE-TEXT CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number 595.796 WIL
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wilson, Edward O.,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Tales from the ant world /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Edward O. Wilson.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First edition.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York, NY :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice [2020]
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 227 pages :
Other physical details illustrations ;
Dimensions 22 cm.
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE
Content type term text
Content type code txt
Source rdacontent.
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE
Media type term unmediated
Media type code n
Source rdamedia.
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE
Carrier type term volume
Carrier type code nc
Source rdacarrier.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-215) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Of Ants and Men: Morality and Triumph -- The Making of a Naturalist -- The Right Species -- Army Ants -- Fire Ants -- How Fire Ants Made Environmental History -- Ants Defeat the Conquistadors -- The Fiercest Ants in the World, and Why -- The Benevolent Matriarchy -- Ants Talk with Smell and Taste -- How We Broke the Pheromone Code -- Speaking Formic -- Ants Are Everywhere (Almost) -- Homeward Bound -- Adventures in Myrmecology -- The Fastest Ants in the World, and the Slowest -- Social Parasites Are Colony Engineers -- The Matabele, Warrior Ants of Africa -- War and Slavery Among the Ants -- The Walking Dead -- Tiny Cattle Ranchers of Africa -- Trapjaws versus Springtails -- Searching for the Rare -- An Endangered Species -- Leafcutters, the Ultimate Superorganisms -- Ants That Lived with the Dinosaurs.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "Summary 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. . . . Their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg," writes Edward O. Wilson in his most finely observed work in decades. In a myrmecological tour to such far-flung destinations as Mozambique and New Guinea, the Gulf of Mexico's Dauphin Island and even his parents' overgrown yard back in Alabama, Wilson thrillingly evokes his nine-decade-long scientific obsession with more than 15,000 ant species. Wryly observing that "males are little more than flying sperm missiles" or that ants send their "little old ladies into battle," Wilson eloquently relays his brushes with fire, army, and leafcutter ants, as well as more exotic species: the Matabele, Africa's fiercest warrior ants; Costa Rica's Basiceros, the slowest ants in the world; and New Caledonia's Myrmecia apicalis, the most endangered of them all. A personal account by one of our greatest scientists, Tales from the Ant World is an indispensable volume for any lover of the natural world"--
Assigning source Provided by publisher.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Ants.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Ants
General subdivision Behavior.
Holdings
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    Library of Congress Classification     Stacks 02/19/2021 QL568 .F7 W557 2020 33039001496123 08/15/2023 1 Book

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