Chemical Communication: The Language of Pheromones (Scientific American Library)
Description
A wounded minnow attempts to rejoin its school and the other minnows scatter in panic; a single beetle finds a pine tree to its liking and soon thousands of beetles swarm that tree and others in the vicinity; a male Syrian golden hamster is drawn along an invisible trail to a burrow where a female hamster awaits him, ready for mating. These animals are responding to received communications, but, as in countless other occurrences in nature, the language is not auditory or visual--it is chemical.Unlike humans, who gather information largely through sight and sound, most living creatures rely ...
ISBN(s)
0716750368, 9780716750369
