Abstract
The world's master builders are less than an inch tall. Gifted ant architects have built thriving cities on every continent-using every imaginable kind of material. The subterranean city highways are busy with traffic scurrying to and from the suburban markets. The citizens carry out their jobs with abandon, in full accordance with their special callings. A complex communication network ensures the survival of this metropolis, which must manage its food production, defend its citizens from marauding enemies, and regulate the climate. In some cities, caverns are set aside for shepherds to tend their flocks; and in other communities, collective farmers plant, prune, and harvest food from underground gardens. These sound like modern human cities, but they're not. Welcome to the wonderful world of ants, some of God's most able architects, who have built an astonishing array of charming cities around the world.