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this is soooooo cool
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spyder-dude
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That is cool. Just shared on my facebook page!
Bob Denman
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I guess that it's an easy thing to do to Fire Ants; they don't exactly have the popular press on their side! 
That was very interesting; I was amazed at how many tunnels they interconnected, within such a tight area. :thumbup:
That was very interesting; I was amazed at how many tunnels they interconnected, within such a tight area. :thumbup:
Dan_Ashley
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Wow.
Ants are kind of special and kinda like humans too.
1. They live in cities. Ant cities are called colonies though.
2. They have division of labor and specialization. Army ants, scouts, gardeners, larvae tenders.
3. They engage in farming. The "food" we see them take into their nests is used as fodder to grow molds or fungus that they eat.
4. They bury their dead.
5. They have a hierarchy of social control, with the queen at the top. We do the same sort of thing...but we don't always have a queen.
Very interesting creatures.
Ants are kind of special and kinda like humans too.
1. They live in cities. Ant cities are called colonies though.
2. They have division of labor and specialization. Army ants, scouts, gardeners, larvae tenders.
3. They engage in farming. The "food" we see them take into their nests is used as fodder to grow molds or fungus that they eat.
4. They bury their dead.
5. They have a hierarchy of social control, with the queen at the top. We do the same sort of thing...but we don't always have a queen.
Very interesting creatures.
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Bob Denman
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And if you'd poured molten aluminum on top of us; we'd be just like them too! :shocked:
Dan McNally
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Fire ants were accidently introduced into the US in the 30's . . . and are nasty little suckers. If you live where they are spreading, and have ever encountered them by mistake, you'd be cheering this guy and wondering where you could get 20 lbs of aluminum to melt!
Where they (ants) resettled after the filming? Lets not forget, all living thing have purpose in this blue planet.
Barlock
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Ants are ... kinda like humans too
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
Dan_Ashley
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On specialization:
"It is the great multiplication of the productions of all the different arts, in consequence of the division of labour, which occasions, in a well-governed society, that universal opulence which extends itself to the lowest ranks of the people."~Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations,Book I, Chapter I, p. 22, para. 10, 1776, University of Oxford Press.
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