Ants are the most amazing creatures. The society of ants is historically many times older than human society and, to some extent, even more complex and organically expedient. The author, a naturalist, writer, doctor of biological sciences and professor of zoology, studied ants in a natural field setting for more than fifty years, and in this book described your most interesting encounters with this mysterious people of our planet. The vast majority of his observations are new to science, but this book, due to its simplicity and imagery of presentation, is addressed and also interesting to a wide range of readers, and especially to those who love nature and are concerned about its fate.