I don't understand why they can't climb out? You would think after a few days one ant would find the ceiling and climb back up the shaft?
Yes, it happens, but that one ant then is apparently too selfish to go back again for the others.
Ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker
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#42Researchers should end this madness and free the ants. I don't think that those ants are happy :/ :(
I agree :(
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#43I don't understand why they can't climb out? You would think after a few days one ant would find the ceiling and climb back up the shaft?
Yes, it happens, but that one ant then is apparently too selfish to go back again for the others.
Or too dumb to have the intelligence to know that he has to go back.
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#45Can't believe I'm the first person in this comment stream to say it, but: doesn't this piece feel like a real-world Dwarf Fortress?
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#46Just wondering. Why can't they climb back up through the pipe? I've seen ants walking in the ceiling. And if there's a passageway to the outside (a researcher squeezed in) wouldn't the ant eventually find the way out?
They don't really operate with the concept of "climbing back" or "way out".
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
So it's Australia, for ants!
What does Australia have to do with this? I wanna know.
Australia was a British penal colony. According to Wikipedia, 20% of of today's Australians are descended from British convicts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convicts_in_Australia
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#49Interesting read, although I'm slightly disappointed that there were no giant mutant ants after the "nuclear weapons bunker" tease in the headline.