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The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness> of Insect Societies by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson |
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...ants clearly are fundamentally different from us. A whimsical example
concerns the work of ant morticians, which recognize ant corpses purely on the
basis of the presence of a product of decomposition called oleic acid. When
researchers daub live ants with the acid, they are promptly carried off to the
ant cemetery by the undertakers, despite the fact that they are alive and
kicking. Indeed, unless they clean themselves very thoroughly they are
repeatedly dragged to the mortuary, despite showing every other sign of life.
...ant explorers count their steps to determine where they are in relation to home. This remarkable ability was discovered by researchers who lengthened the legs of ants by attaching stilts to them. The stilt-walking ants, they observed, became lost on their way home to the nest at a distance proportionate to the length of their stilts reviewed in NYRB |
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