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Print Length: 110 pages
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition (September 28, 2010)
Publication Date: September 28, 2010
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Language: English
ASIN: B004BDOSR8
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This book has so much you can learn from and if you are interested in ants and knowing more about them, this is the book for you.
Kingdom of Ants" is an interesting volume. E. O. Wilson includes snippets of the largely forgotten 18th century Colombian Savant José Celestino Mutis's diaries concerning his observations of ants, among the first entomological studies in the New World, with some casual analysis, by Wilson, one of the greatest ant experts in the world and his Spanish colleague José M. Gómez Durán, of what Mutis was actually seeing. It is a very effective technique and this little volume is a very enjoyable read.Not being a great ant expert, though I have read a fair amount on the subject, and I am pretty knowledgeable about arthropod evolution. I learned some interesting details about the ants of Colombia, but mostly this work is a miniature glimpse into the world of a naturalist in Spanish Colonial America. This is where it shines, you get a real idea of how a gentleman scholar, Mutis was an Enlightenment Intellectual, a disciple of Linnaeus, and a Priest, in late 1700s South America could operate. The vignettes of Mutis's research and manner are nothing if not charming, and I, like Wilson, was very impressed with his thorough approach, though his technique was lacking the refinements one starts to expect by the late 1700s. It remains however a slight book, that covers very little, and honestly could have included more illustrations.Strangely enough if I were to recommend this book to anyone, it would be to either a young budding naturalist of a more literary bent or a writer who was looking for ideas, there are several moments that are almost begging for fictional treatment, for example a Sra. Mariana Davila, a lady of Bogota whose house was overrun by Army Ants, yet was fascinated by them, or Sr. Lanneret an eager and acute observer of ant wars at the mines in Darien.(Note: A previous version of this review erroneously identified the coauthor, José M. Gómez Durán, as a Colombian when he is a Spaniard)
Ants are amazing little creatures. They have managed to colonize virtually every landmass on the planet except for Antartica, thrive and sustain widely different ecosystems, and can form highly complex communities with an ability to allocate and maintain resources that far outstrips our own meager abilities. Among these remarkable insects members of the ant family are members of the genera Atta and Acromyrmex, more commonly known as the leaf-cutter ants, stand out as particulary unique and interesting. These ants farm fungi for food. They venture out into the forest in droves to collect the leaves that sustain their domesticated fungal crop, while also administering a complex land management policy to keep the fungus free and clear of pests.These agarian ants also happen to be one of the first ants in the new world to be extensively investigated by a scientist, as revealed by Kingdom of Ants. This slim (95 pages) book presents some of the original translated writings of one of the lost disciples of Linnaeus, the Spanish naturalist Jose Celestino Mutis. In 1760 Mutis traveled to present day Colombia (then called the New Kingdom of Granada) and began one of the first studies of New World flora and fauna that was to last 48 years. Unfortunately, his works were largely forgotten and/or lost, but in work E.O. Wilson and Jose M. Gomez Durian reconstruct some of Mutis' writings about ants and place his findings in a more modern entomological context.The book is charming, largely due to Mutis' childlike fascination with nature and his desire to elucidate the ways of the ants. Mutis is also a very fun scientist to read: "Who could believe that, on such a propitious occasion, I could forget a matter that gives me so much pleasure as the [army ants], as if I had never thought of my earlier observation? But such are my duties in the [mining] company these days, where I am conducting some important experiments on the melting of metals." It is also clear from these writings that Mutis possesed a formidable scientific mind, and he deserves to be counted among the great early naturalists. While this book doesn't delve too deeply into the study of ants, but it does provide a very interesting look at the dawn of systematic scientific exploration of the New World and is a great joy to read.
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