BBC:
Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same interrelated colony, and will refuse to fight one another.
The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination.
Want to reply to a comment? Hint: Click "Reply" at the bottom of the comment; after being approved your comment will appear directly underneath the comment you replied to
"ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same interrelated colony, and will refuse to fight one another."
and they're smarter than we are too!
THEM. The ants will inherit the earth. Our shot is rapidly coming to an end.
Ant civil liberty now!
Just wait until they start talking:)
Ants unite now...Ants on the moon:)
They already do.
The only solution here is to breed rival ants. It is our only hope of survival.
Can't we all just get along?
I hope they do a better job running this planet than mankind has.
"...and I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords and would like to remind them that as a trusted t.v. personality I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves."
-Kent Brockman
But are the ants conservative or liberal?
Reactionary or progressive?
Authoritarian, assuredly.
:)
Kent Brockman was prescient.
So the ants all get along, but people can't... it seems highly developed brains are overrated.
Er, the article is saying that ants only get along with ants that are closely related to themselves, and start fighting with ants that aren't related to themselves, even if they're the same species.
Though to be fair, humans can't even match that, but that's probably a fair trade for not being a literal drone.
Even folks related to each other can't get along.
"Argentine ants...will refuse to fight one another...could rival humans in the scale of its world domination."
We humans are far less evolved in one sense -- we INSIST on fighting each other.
Oy vey.
So do Argentine ants who aren't related to one another. Although humans don't always get along with their own relatives, they don't (usually) start attacking anyone not related to them on general principle, which is what Argentine ants do.
Why won't Obama fix this???
Haaaaaaaaaaaaa! They may all be gay ants.
Well, hey, as long as we keep spilling soft drinks and cookie crumbs on the ground they'll keep thinking we're Gods, right?
Manna from heaven.
Just don't bring out the magnifying glass or they'll think we're going OLD TESTAMENT on them.
The Republicans thought they could take over the world at one time as well.......they thought wrong.
But Republicans aren't as smart as ants.
Yeah they'll go along merrily thinking they're kings of the world until they try and colonize Afghanistan.
They'll get their sorry 6-legged asses handed to them just like the British, the Russians, and... well.
*nevermind*
THEM!
Loading comments…
First Posted: 07- 1-09 06:25 PM | Updated: 07- 1-09 07:17 PM