Book Excerpt from Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World
| January 3, 2012
In Chapter 8, "Pirates at the Picnic," author Marlene Zuk considers the wisdom of describing the behavior of ants in human terms
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