Ants can carry out life-saving amputations on injured nest mates, study shows
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#2Ants are hella cute. Sometimes I would get ants coming into my home, and it was fun watching them try to find food somewhere. I tried to keep it clean. Were these the recon teams sent to find stuff?
Sometimes I’d bring them to my desk and it was cool hanging out with some ants. I eventually caved and bought some sugar cubes. They seemed to LOVE them. I chipped them into smaller chunks, and watching ants yeet them on their “shoulders” and carry it back home was so cool.
Then somehow they’d just not show up again for many months. But I was always glad when I’d start seeing them come back.
Why are they so cute :o
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#3Ants are hella cute. Sometimes I would get ants coming into my home, and it was fun watching them try to find food somewhere. I tried to keep it clean. Were these the recon teams sent to find stuff? Sometimes I’d bring them to my desk and it was cool hanging out with some ants. I eventually caved and bought some sugar cubes. They seemed to LOVE them. I chipped them into smaller chunks, and watching ants yeet them on…
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#4Ants are hella cute. Sometimes I would get ants coming into my home, and it was fun watching them try to find food somewhere. I tried to keep it clean. Were these the recon teams sent to find stuff? Sometimes I’d bring them to my desk and it was cool hanging out with some ants. I eventually caved and bought some sugar cubes. They seemed to LOVE them. I chipped them into smaller chunks, and watching ants yeet them on…
This comment makes me wonder if there is an ant equivalent of toxoplasmosis which makes one think that cats are irresistibly cute
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#5> The nest mates then proceeded to repeatedly bite the injured leg until it was cut off
More evidence in favor of ants being the cause of the zombie apocalypse.
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#6Stunning!
They are also the only other animal on the planet to manipulate it's environment to grow food, apart from humans, by protecting aphids. Sometimes they even wage war to neighboring nests, and kidnap larvae which subsequently grow as workers. Ottomans were very fond of this practice.
Ant's face photographed on an electron microscope shows an animal with a very high level of intelligence.
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#7Ants are hella cute. Sometimes I would get ants coming into my home, and it was fun watching them try to find food somewhere. I tried to keep it clean. Were these the recon teams sent to find stuff? Sometimes I’d bring them to my desk and it was cool hanging out with some ants. I eventually caved and bought some sugar cubes. They seemed to LOVE them. I chipped them into smaller chunks, and watching ants yeet them on…
Given how much you liked hanging with ants, I recommend you try spiders in a garden. Look for a spider web where one is hanging, toss a small piece of debris that breaks a little of the web, and watch in awe how they repair it.
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#8Stunning! They are also the only other animal on the planet to manipulate it's environment to grow food, apart from humans, by protecting aphids. Sometimes they even wage war to neighboring nests, and kidnap larvae which subsequently grow as workers. Ottomans were very fond of this practice. Ant's face photographed on an electron microscope shows an animal with a very high level of intelligence.
> Ant's face photographed on an electron microscope shows an animal with a very high level of intelligence.
What? I can't tell if I'm missing something, or is this some meme.
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#9Stunning! They are also the only other animal on the planet to manipulate it's environment to grow food, apart from humans, by protecting aphids. Sometimes they even wage war to neighboring nests, and kidnap larvae which subsequently grow as workers. Ottomans were very fond of this practice. Ant's face photographed on an electron microscope shows an animal with a very high level of intelligence.
> Ant's face photographed on an electron microscope shows an animal with a very high level of intelligence. What? I can't tell if I'm missing something, or is this some meme.
I am talking about this photo [1], even though it's not after all taken by an electron microscope. Pretty scary, but intelligent face, is it not?
[1] https://factcheck.afp.com/macro-photograph-ant-taken-stacked...
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#10The ants where I now live are so big that it’s easier to see their more subtle behaviors. About the length of a finger nail. Yeah yeah I’m sure there are bigger ants than that, but I consider that pretty big for an ant!
They are fascinating to watch. I often see one ant carrying another, and occasionally see a group of ants trying to get another one unstuck.