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• Dune buggies: what is the sound of one katydid stridulating? 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] David Rentz remembers the day in his childhood when his grandmother got down on her hands and knees and picked up a...

  Natural History, 09/01/09 by Robert R. Dunn · More from publication

• A head in the clouds: do the microorganisms that circulate in the atmosphere get there by chance—or by contrivance? 

  Circumambulating his home near Oxford University, in the style of Charles Darwin treading his "thinking path," the evolutionary biologist William...

  Natural History, 07/01/09 by Robert R. Dunn · More from publication

• Could an ant colony read this book? 

  The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strageness of Insect Societies The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strageness of Insect...

  Natural History, 02/01/09 by Robert R. Dunn · More from publication

• Notes from the Edge 

  The first reports home from early European explorers in the tropics told of impenetrable jungles ("we hacked through a dense, green hell ..."). But...

  Natural History, 03/01/07 by Robert R. Dunn · More from publication

• Dig it! An air-lubber surveys the pleasures and perils of the burrowing life 

  Peter J. Nicholson sneaked out of his Australian hoarding school bedroom one night and ran into the nearby forest. The moon was slight and the...

  Natural History, 12/01/06 by Robert R. Dunn · More from publication

• Jaws of life: thousands of plant species place their fates in the mandibles of ants 

  I displaced a rock in Tennessee. Underneath, huddled at one edge of the exposed dirt, was a colony of ants. The slender ants moved slowly in the...

  Natural History, 09/01/05 by Robert R. Dunn · More from publication