
Tales from the Ant World
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Narrated by:
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Jonathan Hogan
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By:
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Edward O. Wilson
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.
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Tip for listeners: I struggled with the narrator at first and almost stopped listening. Thankfully I didn’t. I changed the speed to 1.2x and after a short time of listening I actually began to enjoy listening to this narrator. So if you’re hesitant because of the narrator, that’s something I can recommend.
Really enjoyable
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Great book
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The book itself is decent, though as information goes I would recommend people a different book by Olaf Fritsche and Susanne Foitzik, that I think went into much stronger detail. But definitely this is a pretty decent book
Pretty decent
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Great content, but I wasn't crazy about the reader
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Worth it & fun
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fANTastic 🐜
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Love me some ants only more so.
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A fantastic tour of the ant world
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Ants in vivo
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The narrator does sound drunk. If I did not like the story so much, or if it wet a longer book—I’d have to turn it off
Poor narrator
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