Thursday, September 27, 2012

Take the power back little fella!




Slave Rebellion Is Widespread in Ants Originally from “ScienceDaily


It seems that slave ants fight a continuous battle with those who enslaved them.  This reminds of a story in an episode of RadioLab (called “Emergence”).  The thing I would point out is that the rebellion in all likely-hood not ‘intentional’.  Remember an individual ant has an incredibly small brain, what’s probably happening (in my opinion) is that at some point the Slaver larvae start producing pheromones that trigger an automatic attack instinct in the Slave nannies. 

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