TIL an ant mega-colony exists across 3 continents and is thought to contain billions of ants, all of which recognise each other to be from the same colony. The largest part of the colony is in Europe
TIL an ant mega-colony exists across 3 continents and is thought to contain billions of ants, all of which recognise each other to be from the same colony. The largest part of the colony is in Europe
news.bbc.co.uk /earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8127000/8127519.stm
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I wonder if they have some sort of deep under-sea network that allows access to other continents or if they just recognize a common pheromone etc from their cousins who hitched a boat etc to a new home
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The latter
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Ants are neat.
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This is really cool.
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The page isn’t redirecting properly
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And that is why we need an Ant Man to stop an invasion. /s
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