Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony,
writes E.O. Wilson, one of the world's most beloved scientists, their clashes
dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg. In Tales from the Ant World, two-time Pulitzer
Prize-winner Wilson takes us on a myrmecological tour to such far-flung
destinations as Mozambique and New Guinea, the Gulf of Mexico's Dauphin Island
and even his parent's overgrown backyard, thrillingly relating his
nine-decade-long scientific obsession with over 15,000 ant species.
Animating his scientific observations with illuminating personal stories, Wilson
hones in on twenty-five ant species to explain how these genetically superior
creatures talk, smell, and taste, and more significantly, how they