The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct | Bert Holldobler & Edward O. Wilson

 

The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any single ant species ever produced.

 

Each colony of the leafcutter ants can contain up to 5 million workers, all the daughters of a single queen are known to live for well over a 10 years.

 

The leafcutter ants have expanded their instinctive civilisation into a virtual domination of the land from Louisiana to Patagonia. Inspired by a section of the authors' acclaimed The Superorganism. This is the ultimate explanation of what a social order with a half-billion years of animal evolution has achieved.

 

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Video below is a quick interview with Bert Holldobler.

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