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Ants More Rational Than Humans? Posted: 4 months ago by kakana
Ants can accomplish a task more rationally than our – multimodal, egg-headed, tool-using, bipedal, opposing-thumbed – selves. This is not the case of humans being "stupider" than ants. Humans and animals simply often make irrational choices when faced with very challenging decisions.
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Chocolate Covered Ants Posted: 2 years ago by sholom22
Ingredients –
100 Live Black Ants (avoid red ants, their too spicy)
1 vanilla bean split and seeds scraped out
2 Egg Yolks
1 Tbsp. Sugar
1 tsp. Butter, melted
12 oz. Bittersweet Chocolate
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Baby Fire Ants Play Dead When Attacked Posted: 2 years ago by doggylives
Ants from an attacking colony will come up to inspect them, and they’ll be curled up just like a dead ant. Then moments later they uncurl and walk away.
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Digital Ants will protect your computer Posted: 1 month ago by Ankabout
Modeled after the workings of a real ant colony, scientists have created 'digital ants' that can protect your computer from viruses and worms.
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From Ants! Natures Secret Power Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
Ants! I understand they are also good chocolate coated.
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Butterflies trick ants into raising young Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
The butterflies deposit their larvae on marsh gentian plants where exploring ants find them, identify the chemical coating, and take the butterfly larvae back to the ant colony and feed them until they grow up and leave...
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Ferocious ants bite like a bullet Posted: 3 years ago by Jaxomlotus
Trap-jaw ants bite with a force of over 300 times their own bodyweight. Uninvited visitors to a nest of trap-jaw ants can expect a vicious response.
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Study reveals how ants talk to each other Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
Next time you see an army of ants scurrying around, bear in mind that they may be following orders.
For scientists have shown that the insects talk to each other and are more intelligent than anyone ever realised.
They discovered that ants communicate by stroking a natural 'washboard' on their abdomen with a body part that resembles a plectrum.
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Move over fire ants -- here come needle ants Posted: 12 months ago by Bornbad
The name alone is enough to induce a shudder: the Asian needle ant.
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Ants fitted with radio transmitters for scientific study Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
Tiny radio transmitters were fitted to ants by scientists to study their house-hunting habits.
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Time Lapse of Ants Eating A Gecko Posted: 1 year ago by lostsoul135
A bunch of ants devour a dead gecko from flesh to bone in a matter of a hours. Pretty cool time lapse.
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Come celebrate - Get whipped by clowns and showered by fire ants! Posted: 3 years ago by BrownTrout
I couldn't tell where this video was actually taking place but it is a pretty bizarre annual festival. Some guys dressed like clowns run through the streets whipping people with sticks with festivities culminating in a shower of fire ants! Sounds like fun huh?
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Do ants have low self esteem? Posted: 3 years ago by BrownTrout
Scientists have been studying how ants behave in colonies and have found that they willingly plug "potholes" with their bodies, testing the holes first to see what size ant is needed, then allowing the colony to march right over them for the greater good!
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'Stench of life' prevents ants from being buried alive Posted: 7 months ago by Bornbad
Life really stinks for Argentine ants. New research shows that while alive, the ants produce two odoriferous chemicals that prevent their compatriots from immediately carting their bodies away to the 'morgue'.
*word of the day...Pupae*
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Tired of potholes? You can do like the ants do.. Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
Army ants tired of potholes take one for the team, throwing their bodies into rough spots to make a smoother road for their sisters.
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Tarantulas, snakes, fire ants lurk in Texas floodwaters Posted: 1 year ago by deEPCHIll
South Texans eager to salvage what they can from waterlogged homes struck by Hurricane Dolly have another problem. "You don't want to wade in this water," state Health Services Commissioner David Lakey said. "You don't want to play in this water. You want to stay out of this water."
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Amazonian ants decide sex is overrated Posted: 8 months ago by Ankabout
An Amazonian ant has dispensed with sex and developed into an all-female species, researchers have found.
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Fighting Back Against Fire Ants Posted: 3 years ago by VooDooPeacock
These destructive little varmints cause 6 billion dollars worth of damage a year in the USA alone, not to mention their bites burn like the poisonous flames of hell. Now scientists fight back with an ant-specific virus.
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Precariously Loaded Ants Posted: 4 months ago by Bornbad
When it comes to lifting things, how heavy is heavy? Something twice your weight? Three times? Four? Most would agree that taking the strain of such loads constitutes a pretty impressive show of strength. Yet while these feats are regularly realised by weightlifters, what if we were able to carry objects twenty or fifty times our own weight – figures often bandied about when sizing up the strength of ants?
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Thousands protest over ant aphrodisiac scheme Posted: 2 years ago by mitzuzake
Thousands of people in northeastern China have protested on the streets and surrounded government offices demanding help recovering money from a get-rich-quick scheme to raise ants to make an aphrodisiac tonic.
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