![]() ![]() Ant relatedness is fascinating and find more details in The Selfish Gene section below.Īnts keep gardens! Leaf cutter ants tend to fungus gardens in much the same way we tend to farms.Īnts farm other species! Some ants will grow aphids and milk them for honeydew and use ranching management techniques similar to what humans do.Īnts sometimes find themselves in a death spiral, where the chemical path gets lost and they all follow each other in a circle until they die. The sisters are more related to each other than queen is to the daughter. The queen is the captive in the situation. See the other Kurzgesagt video below for more. ![]() Most army ants species are specialists at attacking and eating other social insect colonies. Almost all the boys have wings and their job is "to have sex and then die". If a scientist brushes this chemical on a healthy ant, their comrades will still drag them into the pile.Īll worker ants are female. Learn more in the Kurzgesagt video below.Īnts communicate with chemicals and we don’t fully understand how it all works.Ī dying ant releases a chemical that causes other ants to drag them into the “dead pile”. ![]() They have a super colony hundreds of miles in size, which is small compared to the one in South America. The biggest enemy for most ants are other colonies of the same species.Īrgentine ants are an invasive species that have completely taken over the Los Angeles, CA area. This episode with an ant expert is a perfect entrance into the wild world of ants. Her signature move is to cut in with asides via post-production in order to provide more context around the topic at hand. Host Alie Ward is a science communicator who interviews various scientists and she is a delight to listen to. Go elsewhere with your bullshit until you grow up and educate yourself, your uneducated opinions are not wanted or needed, we fight for the welfare of animals without the likes of you.If you have never listened to Ologies, this is a great episode to sell you on the show. You have been spoon-fed propaganda with little to no facts and even less context, and you lapped it up like you were on the set of a bad porno. The difference between you and me is that I recognize that I know nothing about them, and thus don't have an opinion on it. The people fighting the most for animal welfare are the people working in animal ag.īut you literally said that these ants, who will run until they starve to death out of fear and exhaustion, have an easier death than the animals who are killed almost instantly after being fed and housed (and in smaller farms, treated like pets/family), proving you know absolutely nothing about animal ag and should get educated or shut the fuck up about it. Your ignorance is about normal for the average willfully ignorant person bitching about animal ag.ĭo we need to make more changes to be more sustainable? Absolutely. You've obviously never even been within a mile of a farm, met farm workers, met ranchers, or even spoken to anyone in the animal ag industry. ![]()
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