They’re found on every continent save Antarctica and in just about every possible setting, and though you may dislike ants at a picnic, you’d dislike even more a park that was scrubbed antiseptically ant-free.Īs Wilson has learned through painful experience, ants will defend their nest vigorously, violently, to the death if need be and the more elaborate the dwelling, the more ferocious the homeland security system. Ants are a wildly successful sector of nature’s bestiary, accounting for maybe a quarter of all terrestrial animal matter-the same percentage of biomass that we humans can claim. Wilson of Harvard University knows the terrifying power of the nest firsthand-and first-ankle, crook of the knee, any patch of skin that happened to be unsheathed as the eminent evolutionary biologist has crept through tropical rainforests studying some of the most aggressive ant species in the world.
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