Comments on: Book review – Desert Navigator: The Journey of an Ant/2020/06/18/book-review-desert-navigator-the-journey-of-an-ant/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Thu, 04 Jul 2024 15:00:56 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – The Ant Collective: Inside the World of an Ant Colony | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/06/18/book-review-desert-navigator-the-journey-of-an-ant/comment-page-1/#comment-94938Thu, 04 Jul 2024 15:00:56 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=7975#comment-94938[…] reviewed some seriously impressive photographic books on ants, covering amongst others army ants, desert ants, and myrmecophiles. Despite being a slimmer volume written for a general audience, The Ant […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Mind of a Bee | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/06/18/book-review-desert-navigator-the-journey-of-an-ant/comment-page-1/#comment-91897Wed, 09 Aug 2023 13:55:49 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=7975#comment-91897[…] home in a straight line after a meandering foraging trip) are shared with other Hymenoptera such as Cataglyphis desert ants. But what about instinct, something most behaviours were traditionally ascribed to? He has some […]

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]]>By: Book review – Ant Architecture: The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/06/18/book-review-desert-navigator-the-journey-of-an-ant/comment-page-1/#comment-22084Mon, 12 Jul 2021 13:00:41 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=7975#comment-22084[…] mine shafts were provided. The ants cared not. Do they count steps on their way down, similar to desert ants? The artificial shafts were angled. The ants cared not. In all cases, the ants knew exactly how far […]

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]]>By: Book review – Army Ants: Nature’s Ultimate Social Hunters | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/06/18/book-review-desert-navigator-the-journey-of-an-ant/comment-page-1/#comment-13685Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:53:02 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=7975#comment-13685[…] Harvard University Press has spoiled myrmecophiles – of the human kind, that is. After Desert Navigator in February, Army Ants is the second big book on ants for 2020. These social insects, cooperatively […]

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]]>By: Book review – Oxford Dictionary of Zoology (Fifth Edition) | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/06/18/book-review-desert-navigator-the-journey-of-an-ant/comment-page-1/#comment-13131Sat, 19 Sep 2020 15:39:52 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=7975#comment-13131[…] I was reviewing Desert Navigator I read about ants that are eusocial1, brachypterous2, and, in some cases, practice thelytoky3. Some […]

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]]>By: Book review – Incredible Journeys: Exploring the Wonders of Animal Navigation | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/06/18/book-review-desert-navigator-the-journey-of-an-ant/comment-page-1/#comment-10516Thu, 18 Jun 2020 09:48:17 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=7975#comment-10516[…] way? Or the ant’s in-built mental odometer which allows it to count steps (see my review of Desert Navigator: The Journey of an Ant), the importance of smell in fish, or spiny lobsters trudging along the sea bottom in a straight […]

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