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Warring ants know their enemies
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meesterperfect
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although looking at them magnified gives me the heebeejeebees, I've always found ants interesting.
When I was a kid I would watch anthills sometimes and observe their behavior.
Like when you see one ant dragging another dead ant.
Why do they do that? Do they eat it? Do the take it to an ant cemetery?
Its amazing how they all have a job to do and they know what it is?
I saw a documentary once about these giant ant hills. They put cameras inside.
Some ant would havethe job of dead ant removal.
they would carry out the dead ants, then climb the same little tree with it and then drop it onto a pile of dead ants so in made a mountain shape dead ant heap.
Crazy stuff.
When I was a kid I would watch anthills sometimes and observe their behavior.
Like when you see one ant dragging another dead ant.
Why do they do that? Do they eat it? Do the take it to an ant cemetery?
Its amazing how they all have a job to do and they know what it is?
I saw a documentary once about these giant ant hills. They put cameras inside.
Some ant would havethe job of dead ant removal.
they would carry out the dead ants, then climb the same little tree with it and then drop it onto a pile of dead ants so in made a mountain shape dead ant heap.
Crazy stuff.
maildude
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Ants have an evolution-enhanced "sixth sense" which allows them to operate without detection. In fact, some species of ants have never been seen, because they use their superbrains to cloak themselves in invisibility. The NSA and PBS are presently working in cooperation with these anthives to learn their secrets and to apply these in military devices. PROOF
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No, but when resources become scarce they will sometimes chow down on their own brood just to keep the colony going until resources are located.meesterperfect said:
Maybe some of the 12,000 + known varieties of ants in fact separate their deceased worker sisters from the general waste of the colony, but most varieties just dump 'em exoskeletal corpses in the general landfill of the colony.
You should see what happens when you collect about 30-40 queens from the argentine ant family and place them in a clear plastic ''ant farm'' with .... say.... 50 worker ants also from the argentine variety.... The queens will lay so damned many eggs per day that the 50 worker ants soon realize that they can't possibly raise the amount of young being produced, so what do they do? they attack select queens with brute force! Often times the workers will gang up and have a tug o war as each worker ant will clamp their mandibles onto either a leg or antennae of a sacrificial queen. and the slow miserable death begins. Could you imagine raising children who would one day tear you apart limb by limb... antennae by antennae? Oh, that's right, meester don't have antennae :1orglaugh
The funny thing is, the queens aren't the leaders of the colony, not in the least bit! They're closer to being hostages than they are to being ''queens'' :1orglaugh Queen ants are nothing more than ants who would have otherwise been lowly worker ants, the difference is, the queens are fed much greater quantities of food while in the larval and pupal stage than their worker sisters... this extra nourishment allows the queens to become sexually mature while the workers are largely sterile females for their entire short lives. The queen ants on average live 10 - 15 times longer that their sterile offspring.
Fascinating isn't it?
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Mr. Daystar
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They are amazing little creatures. I've seen some documentaries as well...and to be honest, there are several species I'm damn glad I don't share a continent with....the bullet ant, from New Zealand comes to mind.
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