Howard Topoff
			Publications For General Audiences

Topoff, H. 1984. Slavery in ants: invasion of the booty snatchers. Natural History Magazine. Oct. Pp. 78-85.
Topoff, H. 1987. The body snatchers. National Wildlife Magazine. 22 (6):33.
Topoff, H. (ed.). 1987. The Natural History Reader In Animal Behavior. Columbia University Press, N.Y.
Topoff, H. 1987. Ant Wars. Natural History Magazine. Jan. Pp. 62-7.
Topoff, H. 1990. Slave-making ants. American Scientist 78: 520-528.
Topoff, H. 1994. The ant who would be queen. Natural History Magazine. August: Pp. 40-46
Topoff, H. 1997. A Charles Darwin Birthday Quiz. American Scientist. 85: 104-107.
Topoff, H. 1999. Slave-making queens. Scientific American. November.

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Topoff, H. Cover, S., and Jacobs, A. 1989. Behavioral adaptations for raiding by the slave-making ant Polyergus breviceps. J. Insect Behav. 2: 545-556.
Topoff, H. 1990. The evolution of slave-making behavior in the parasitic ant genus Polyergus. Ethol. Ecol. Evol. 2:284-287.
Topoff, H. Weickert, T., and Zimmerli, E. 1990. A comparative study of colony takeover between queens of facultative and obligatory slave-making ants. J. Insect Behav. 3:813-817.

Topoff, H., and Zimmerli, E. 1991. Formica wheeleri: Darwin's predatory slave-making ant? Psyche 98: 309-317.
Topoff, H., and Zimmerli, E. 1993. Colony takeover by a socially parasitic ant, Polyergus breviceps: the role of chemicals obtained during host-queen killing. Anim. Behav. 46: 479-486.
Topoff, H., and Zimmerli, E. 1994. Queens Of The Socially Parasitic Ant Polyergus Do Not Kill Queens Of Formica That Have Not Formed Colonies. J. Insect Behav. 7: 119-121
Topoff, H. 1997. Adaptations for social parasitism in slave-making ant genus Polyergus. In: Comparative Psychology Of Invertebrates (G. Greenberg and E. Tobach, eds.). Pp. 177-192. Garland Press.
Topoff, H. 1999. Slave-making queens. Scientific American. November.