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Discover new ants in Amazon
The blind ant species live underground by evolutionary biologist Christian Rabeling (University of Texas, Austin) discovered in the Amazon rainforest is the descendants…
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Discover the key to the social status of ants
The fact that an ant becomes a powerful queen or a small worker ant depends on both nature and nurturing.
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Climate change and flooding create biodiversity in the Amazon
The climate changes the Ice Age and the ancient flood, not the barrier barriers, may have pushed the evolution of new insects appeared in the Amazon jungle region of Sou…
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The 'corruption' of the royal class spread in the world of ants
According to researchers at the University of Leeds and Copenhagen, the world of ants is far from being a collaborative social model, it is flooded with fraud and corrup…
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Symbiotic relationship between trees and ants
We still know there is a rule for unintended consequences - if we leave our bodyguards when the danger has passed, then there will be another threat that will bother us.…
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The queen has a very good memory
According to a group of Danish researchers at the University of Copenhagen, the ant ants of some ants have a very good memory. The study was conducted on a cocoa plantat…
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Confession - The secret to ants through the crowd
A bustling crowd can be dissolved faster by placing certain obstacles on the way, Australian researchers announced after learning the lesson from the
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Ants also know to disinfect
According to Swiss researchers of the University of Lausanne, ants also know how to apply public health protection measures. They have doubled the survival rate by using…
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Ants also know how to build bridges
Some ants in tropical forests in Latin America have 'engineering units' that work very effectively. To facilitate the worker ants transporting food to the nest, ants Eci…
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Urban 'ants' suffer better heat
The heat of cities is changing the way it responds to the intense temperature of urban living ants, providing an overview of the impacts that global climate change can c…
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Determining friend and foe is how?
When it comes to distinguishing comrades and enemies based on genetic differences, humans appear to be far behind ants. These tiny insects can detect other genetic diffe…
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Causing a 'civil war' to destroy ants
According to the Los Angeles Times, US researchers believe they have found a way to cause a
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Ants with record bite speed
Central American ants with strong jaws like traps can bite with force 300 times their body weight. Their jaws closed at a speed of more than 100 km / hr - the record in…
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Store fat for famine days
Excess fat seems to be unacceptable for sports athletes, but with ants, it's a matter of survival and they do everything they can to store energy.