The Ants That Gave Up Critical Thinking to Have Babies
The Atlantic Disturbingly light is the head that wears the crown. April 13, 2021 Indian jumping ants "police" a female to force her to revert to worker status.Clint Penick / Kennesaw State University For most ant species, nothing spells apocalypse quite like the death of a queen. A colony stripped of its monarch, the group’s only fertile female and the sole source of eggs, quickly unravels, then extinguishes—an entire society snuffed out. The captain does not go down with her ship; the ship goes down with her captain. Indian jumping ants do not abide by such dictatorial dramatics. They’...
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