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Myrmecology Dies in Darkness
Month: March 2017
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[UPDATED with a video, below] Some researchers recently published a study in which they placed Cataglyphis desert ants on treadmills. Check out a discussion of the research here. Update: In response to a comment by Boshua J’lanchard, here is a video of the treadmill in action:
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Many research programs in biology neglect natural history. While investigating sophisticated hypotheses and theories, even very basic information about study organisms remains unknown. This is why a recent paper by Dr. Walter Tschinkel and Daniel Domínguez is so exciting. These researchers, as reported in PLOS ONE last week, photographed and identified most of the seeds…
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The Daily Ant hosts a weekly series, Philosophy Phridays, in which real philosophers share their thoughts at the intersection of ants and philosophy. This is the second contribution in the series, submitted by Larisa Svirsky. It is inspired by Aesop’s fable, The Philosopher, the Ants, and Mercury. The Hypocrantic Oath A philosopher sees a ship wreck and he says, “Oh, God damnit…
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