How far will the ants take us?

The Secret Wars of the Ants, by Cléo Bertelsmeier.

Editions Favre

By: Caroline Lachowsky

1 min

How far will the ants take us?

These extraordinary social insects: queens, workers, soldiers and even nurses of their war-wounded!

Publicity

With

Cléo Bertelsmeier

(Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Lausanne) for her book

The Secret War of the Ants: Sex, Murder and Territorial Invasion

,

published by Favre Editions (duplex from Lausanne).


And 

Erik Frank

, specialist in matabele ants, widespread in the south of the Sahara.

Wild predators of termites, they come to the aid of their wounded in fights and bring them back to the anthill to " 

cure

 " them.

His work

Fight, save, cure

is published and published by

CNRS Éditions

.

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