The link is pointing to the comments section of the article.
Yep. Please mod remove "?comments=1" from the end.
Ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker
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#12"The continued survival of the ‘colony’ through the years is dependent on new workers falling in through the ventilation pipe. The supplement of workers more than compensates for the mortality rate of workers such that through the years the bunker workforce has grown to the level of big, mature natural colonies."
For heaven's sake someone hide this article before Jeff Bezos reads it :)
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#13Researchers should end this madness and free the ants. I don't think that those ants are happy :/ :(
Re: Ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker
#14Researchers should end this madness and free the ants. I don't think that those ants are happy :/ :(
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#15Ants starving in the dark, damp pit of an abandoned nuclear bunker. Sometimes I love the cyberpunk dystopia we live in.
Re: Ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker
#16Researchers should end this madness and free the ants. I don't think that those ants are happy :/ :(
Do ants have enough neurons to experience happiness or unhappiness?
Re: Ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker
#17Researchers should end this madness and free the ants. I don't think that those ants are happy :/ :(
Exactly. This is not a colony, it is prison for ants, where they basically starve to death. They should just lower some wire through the shaft and free them, anything else is cruel.
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#18Now there's an excellent "penal colony gone horribly wrong" sci-fi story there.
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#19Entirely female population?
This sounds somewhat familiar. Life finds a way.....
Re: Ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker
#20It's possible they have figured out how to eat the creatures who feast in their cemeteries, essentially making them cannibals at one remove. In that case, all living things are cannibals at several removes: animals -> decomposing bacteria -> plants -> animals
Yeah. Like I'm a second-hand vegan. I eat animals that eat plants :)