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Hidden messages / by Dorothy Van Woerkom ; illustrated by Lynne Cherry.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 6536
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Woerkom, Dorothy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ants--Behavior--Juvenile literature.
- Ants.
- Animal communication--Juvenile literature.
- Animal communication.
- Pheromones--Juvenile literature.
- Pheromones.
- Insects--Behavior--Juvenile literature.
- Insects.
- Ants--Behavior.
- Insects--Behavior.
- Genre:
- Literature.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [32] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown Publishers, Inc., [1979]
- Summary:
- Describes Ben Franklin's experiments with ant communication, Jean Henri Fabre's with moths, and the subsequent discovery by scientists of pheromones by which animals do indeed convey messages.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0517535203
- 9780517535202
- OCLC:
- 4496023
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