12 Top animals books like Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors by Susanne Foitzik

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Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors

By: Susanne Foitzik

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Beneath our feet, a fascinating drama unfolds: Ants are waging war and staging rebellions, growing …

If you liked the animals plot in Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors by Susanne Foitzik , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam

By: Mark Bowden

4.15

Format: 680 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Like most of the great turning points in history, it was obvious and yet no one saw it coming."

-Mark Bowden, Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam

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2. The Sting of the Wild

By: Justin O. Schmidt

4.07

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt is on a mission. Some say it's a brave exploration, others shake the… read more

Similar categories in Justin O. Schmidt's The Sting of the Wild book and Susanne Foitzik's Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • nature
  • audiobook
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3. Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds

By: Bernd Heinrich

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich, award - winning naturalist, finds himself dreaming of ravens … read more

Similar categories in Bernd Heinrich's Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds book and Susanne Foitzik's Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors

  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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4. The Court of Broken Knives (Empires of Dust, #1)

By: Anna Smith Spark

2.57

Format: 210 pages,

They've finally looked at the graveyard of our Empire with open eyes. They're fools and madmen and … read more

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5. The Celts

By: Alice Roberts , Neil Oliver

4.70

Format: 84 pages,

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6. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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  • science
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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7. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

By: Dan Egan

4.23

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more

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  • science
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
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8. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

By: Steve Brusatte

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more

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  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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9. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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  • science
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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10. Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

By: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we—and the pla… read more

Similar categories in Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson's Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects book and Susanne Foitzik's Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"As far as we know, our planet is the only place in the universe where there is life. Many would say that we humans have a moral duty to rein in our dominance of the Earth and give our millions of fel…"

-Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

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11. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more

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  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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12. The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From A Hidden World

By: Aliya Whiteley

3.60

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

Aliya Whiteley has always been in love with the wondrous and bizarre world of fungi - from a childh… read more

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  • science
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"This particular orchid gets all its energy from fungi, sometimes from different kinds of fungi simultaneously. It never even begins to turn to the sun. No photosynthesis here. It relies utterly on it…"

-Aliya Whiteley, The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From A Hidden World

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13. Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse

By: Dave Goulson

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world will slowly gri… read more

Similar categories in Dave Goulson's Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse book and Susanne Foitzik's Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
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14. Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors

By: Susanne Foitzik

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Beneath our feet, a fascinating drama unfolds: Ants are waging war and staging rebellions, growing … read more

Similar categories in Susanne Foitzik's Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors book and Susanne Foitzik's Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors

  • science
  • unfinished
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods by Danna Staaf

15. Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods

By: Danna Staaf

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, the… read more

Similar categories in Danna Staaf's Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods book and Susanne Foitzik's Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved by Kenneth Catania

16. Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved

By: Kenneth Catania

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This book showcases some strange creatures with unusual capacities. The "star" of the show is the s… read more

Similar categories in Kenneth Catania's Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved book and Susanne Foitzik's Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
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17. The Wizard and the Prophet

By: Charles C. Mann

4.23

Format: 640 pages, Audio CD

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two littl… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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18. Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

By: Seirian Sumner

3.91

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“A book that draws us in to the strange beauty of what we so often run away from.” — Robin Ince, au… read more

Similar categories in Seirian Sumner's Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps book and Susanne Foitzik's Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
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19. Tales from the Ant World

By: Edward O. Wilson

4.08

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

Edward O. Wilson recalls his lifetime with ants, from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of … read more

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  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
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  • science nature
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Tiny But Mighty: Kitten Lady's Guide to Saving the Most Vulnerable Felines by Hannah  Shaw

20. Tiny But Mighty: Kitten Lady's Guide to Saving the Most Vulnerable Felines

By: Hannah Shaw

4.76

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

*A New York Times Bestseller* #1 National BestsellerIndie BestsellerFrom Kitten Lady, the professio… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • audiobook
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21. The Hidden World: How Insects Sustain Life on Earth Today and Will Shape Our Lives Tomorrow

By: George McGavin

4.18

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

Insects conquered the Earth long before we did and will remain here long after we're gone.They outn… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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19 Best nonfiction books like Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors by Susanne Foitzik

Transform Your Habits

Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam

Mark Bowden

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Sting of the Wild

Justin O. Schmidt

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds

Bernd Heinrich

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

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13 must-read audiobook books like Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods by Danna Staaf

Transform Your Habits

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

Dan Egan

4.23

Transform Your Habits

In Defense of Plants: An Exploration into the Wonder of Plants (Plant Guide, Horticulture, Trees)

Matt Candeias

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

Jaime Green

4.02

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