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If the ants have nothing to eat, and they don't have a queen to breed with, then what do the workers work at, exactly? Do they all just convert to scouts, spend their lives looking for food that doesn't exist, and die?
Can'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?
Ants starving in the dark, damp pit of an abandoned nuclear bunker. Sometimes I love the cyberpunk dystopia we live in.
It'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 :)
I'm the omnivorous first cousin of my vegan self.
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Yeah. Like I'm a second-hand vegan. I eat animals that eat plants :)
reminds me of Erlich Bachman in Silicon Valley, who is a pesca-pescatarian. "I only eat fish that eats other fish"
Ants are like "WTF humans! F* your studies, help us already!"