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Index
Praise
Title Page
Dedication
Preface
CHAPTER 1 - Why Animals Build
WHY BUILD?
INSTINCTIVE RESPONSES
INSTINCTIVE RECOGNITION
CONDITIONED LEARNING
ORGAN-PIPE WASPS
INSTINCT OR LEARNING?
CHAPTER 2 - Building with Silk
THREADS, PROCESSIONS, AND TENTS
COCOONS
SENSORY MAPS
BALLOONS AND CASES
SEINE NETS
COGNITIVE MAPS
REFUGES AND LAIRS
“ IRREGULAR ” WEBS
ORB WEAVING
TOOL USE?
CHAPTER 3 - Instinct and the Solitary Insect
RECYCLING BODY PARTS
ROTE LEARNING IN HUNTING WASPS
FUNNEL WASPS
CHAPTER 4 - Social Intelligence of Wasps and Ants
THE ROAD TO SOCIALITY
EUSOCIAL WASPS
ANTS
CHAPTER 5 - Bees and Termites
STINGLESS BEES
HONEY BEES
TERMITES
CHAPTER 6 - Bird Nests: The Modest Beginnings
THE LAND NESTS OF REPTILES
MEGAPODES
SCRAPES AND CAVITIES
RENOVATIONS
EXCAVATIONS AND PLATFORMS
CHAPTER 7 - Bird Nests: Molding, Felting, and Weaving
EXTERNAL BURROWS
ENTANGLEMENTS
STICKING TOGETHER
WEAVING
CHAPTER 8 - Bowers
THE SATIN BOWERBIRD
OTHER AVENUE BUILDERS
MAYPOLE BOWERS
AESTHETICS ?
CHAPTER 9 - Civil Engineering
LODGES
DAMS
CANALS
CHALLENGES
CHAPTER 10 - Building and the Human Mind
INSTINCT AND HUMANS
UNDERSTANDING
INNATE PHYSICS?
LOGIC
TOOLS
COGNITION AND THE HUMAN MIND
READINGS
CREDIT LINES FOR FIGURES
INDEX
Copyright Page
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