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Animal architecture / [by] Karl von Frisch, with the collaboration of Otto von Frisch.
TITLE:
Animal architecture / [by] Karl von Frisch, with the collaboration of Otto von Frisch.
Publication Date:
1974
Publication Information:
New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
Edition:
[1st ed.]
Physical Description:
306 p. : ill.
Additional Contributors:
Summary:
The creative building activity of animals of all species is surveyed in text, drawings, and photographs in this fascinating work by one of the most eminent of animal observers. With an unrivaled grasp of his subject, Professor von Frisch unfolds the marvels of instinct and inventiveness among insects, fish, birds, and mammals. Much earlier than human technicians, termites created systems of air conditioning, dug wells to a depth of 120 feet, and built central cities with satellite suburbs. Wasps may have shown the Chinese how to make paper. Bowerbirds decorate their nests with the aesthetic sense of a painter. Animals have ingeniously used stone, wood, reeds, clay, and wax as building material. They have devised hinged doors, traps, shelters with overhanging roofs, cells with waterproof lining. The precision of their architecture frequently surpasses that of humans.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780151072514
General Note:
"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
Includes indexes.
