An Introduction to the Behavior of Ants

This book was written to fill the need for an introductory account of the behavior of ants. It has resulted from the author's search among a number of the many papers on ants - an estimated 35,000 a few years ago - and is intended to shorten this same search for other students of the ant. Although he has included early work as far back as Huber at the start of the last century, the core of his material, much of which has not appeared before in English, is drawn from sources published since 1925. Professor Sudd does not attempt to explain the workings of the ant's nervous system in producing its behavior, not those of the evolutionary processes by which the behavior arises. Instead, he discusses the variety of behavior that has been discovered in the small proportion of ants studied. His aim is simple description, assisted in this book by numerous line diagrams and excellent photographs. An extensive list of references is included at the back of the book.