BEES: NATURE’S LITTLE WONDERS
Book ID/图书代码： 03980808B30137
English Summary/英文概要： With informed and passionate prose, a best-selling natural history writer explores the fascinating world and behavior of bees.
Consider the bee. Equipped with a brain the size of a grass seed, a typical honeybee worked nevertheless lives collaboratively with thousands of her sisters in a complex society. Through a life span that seldom exceeds five weeks, she serves successively as brood nurse, wax producer, comb builder, honey maker, home guard, and floral forager. There is so much more a bee than her buzz
Bees: Nature’s Little Wonders invites readers to take a new look at a group of animals that is both familiar and wondrously odd. This little book considers the diversity and biology of bees, including their peculiar sociosexual arrangements, their quirky relationships with flowers, and their startling mental abilities: what are we to make of insects that communicate through symbolic dances?
Our main guides in this exploration are some of the most audacious and ingenious scientists who ever lived, beginning with the bees’ own Nobel Laureate Karl von Frisch in the 1900s and continuing through to the Honeybee Genome Sequencing Consortium of the present. The book also reports on the recent catastrophic losses of honeybees and identifies opportunities for the conservation of pollinators.
The text is enriched with cultural sidebars and is complemented by a stunning collection of images, including offbeat nature photography, fascinating historical illustrations, and enchanting works of art. Based on extensive research and created with passion, Bees is a fitting sequel to Savage’s acclaimed Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 自然历史作家为您展现奇妙的蜜蜂世界。蜜蜂的大脑只有一棵草种子的大小，却能和千万蜜蜂共同协作，辛勤劳动。蜜蜂的寿命最多只有五个星期，却能身兼多职，同时担当采蜜者、授粉者、筑巢者、看门者等等。它们的世界是复杂微妙的。本书邀您一同走入蜜蜂的奇异世界，了解它们的生理构造、生活习性、关系结构、以及惊人的思想活动。书中包含了多位著名科学家的对于蜜蜂各方面的研究成果。还涉及了近来较为严重的蜜蜂大量死亡事件。书中附有大量精彩图片和详细说明，为本书添上了重要的一笔。书中材料均来自权威渠道，内容丰富，是《智者乌鸦》的续篇。(SJN)
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About the Author/作者介绍： CANDACE SAVAGE is the author of numerous internationally acclaimed books on subjects ranging from natural history and science to popular culture. She is the author of the best-selling natural history titles Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World and Prairie: A Natural History, for which she won two Saskatchewan Book Awards and a Gold Medal from Fore Word Magazine in 2004. She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 本书作者坎德斯·萨法琪，著有多部著名自然历史科学作品和当代文化题材作品，现居加拿大七度市。畅销书《智者乌鸦》作者，此书获萨斯喀彻图书奖和《前言》杂志图书金奖。
Format:电子手稿
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