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There are more mites specialized to live on your eyebrows skin than many like to think about. =3
Not just mites, we’re absolutely covered and full of commensal organisms. What’s really interesting is how specialized these organisms have become, like the difference between body and head lice. We have critters socialized to just our eyebrows and eyelashes, others only live in apocrine sweat glands, etc. Even before you get to the literal kilograms of bacteria, fungi and other fauna in our guts we’re a whole world…
Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert
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#32Re: Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert
#33I'm more concerned about the giant desert ants. I've seen that movie...
"Commissioner: Leiningen, you're up against a monster twenty miles long and two miles wide... forty square miles of agonizing death! You can't stop it!"
-- quote from The Naked Jungle.
Trivia - I believe this is from where Clojure got their build tool name.
Re: Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert
#34I'm more concerned about the giant desert ants. I've seen that movie...
Or jungle ants... "Commissioner: Leiningen, you're up against a monster twenty miles long and two miles wide... forty square miles of agonizing death! You can't stop it! " -- quote from The Naked Jungle. Trivia - I believe this is from where Clojure got their build tool name.
The Brazilian official threw up lean and lanky arms and clawed the air with wildly distended fingers. "Leiningen!" he shouted. "You're insane! They're not creatures you can fight--they're an elemental--an 'act of God!' Ten miles long, two miles wide--ants, nothing but ants!”
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#35I have a couple ant nests on my property and have witnessed several crows at a time land on the nests and do this behaviour on multiple occasions.
What ever the reason the bigger ants are allowing this to happen I am convinced that there is some sort of beneficial reason.
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#36why haven't any animals adapted to this role for humans!
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#37why haven't any animals adapted to this role for humans!
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In a Sense, cats did actually. Not through direct contact, but by getting rid of mice and rats that infiltrate food storage.
Cat’s will also literally try to clean you as well!
Re: Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert
#39why haven't any animals adapted to this role for humans!