Ant communities and how they are governed : a study in natural civics / by Henry Christopher McCook.

  • Henry Christopher McCook
Date:
1909
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Credit: Ant communities and how they are governed : a study in natural civics / by Henry Christopher McCook. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS CHAl^ t'AGE Preface v I. Fraternal Confederacies and Communal Right- eousness Among Social Ants 1 II. Nesting Architecture—Housing the CoxMmune . 17 III. Engineering Methods in Ant Structures ... 49 IV. Supplying the Communal Rations 77 V. Feeding the Commune 101 VI. The Language of Ants and Other Insects . . . 121 Vn. How Ants Communicate LIO VIII. Female Government in Ant Communities . . . 1.55 IX. The Problem of Communal Dependents . . . . 171 X. Warrior Ants, and Their Equipment for War . 190 XL How Ants Carry on War 211 XII. Alien Associates and Affinities in Ant Communes 224 XIII. Aphis Herds and Ant Associates 243 XIV. The Founding of Slave-Making Ant Communes . 201 XV. Problems of Sanitation and Personal Benevolence 279 XVI. A Note in Review 290 Table of Authors and References 305 Index 315
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