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Suicide Bombers, Living Food Storage Vessels and More: The Amazing Ant (2019x29)


Yayınlanma tarihi: Oca 29, 2019

If you happen to like →→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: A Giant African Elephant and the Truth About "Jumbo" https://youtu.be/WJg6gpHU9l4 In this video: While honey bees will collect and store their food in combs, certain species of ants take a different route, using the bodies of some of their fellow ants, often the larger bodied ants of the colony called “majors”, to store what they need. Worker ants bring the “honey” or “honeypot” ants things like nectar, water, body fluids and fats (from prey such as caterpillars and termites) to store in case of drought or other times where resources are scarce. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/05/some-ants-are-used-as-living-food-storage-vessels/ Sources: http://www.phenomenica.com/2010/12/ants-good-at-solving-complex-maths.html http://askabiologist.asu.edu/podcasts/ant-math http://www.phenomenica.com/2009/07/ants-more-rational-than-humans.html http://news.discovery.com/animals/ants-are-smarter-than-human-5th-graders-at-math-110411.html http://news.discovery.com/animals/photo-shows-suicide-bomber-ant-self-detonating.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/aug/18/zombie-carpenter-ant-fungus http://www.care2.com/greenliving/ants-turned-into-zombies-by-new-fungus.html# http://www.pestworldforkids.org/ants.html http://www.buzzle.com/articles/facts-about-ants.html http://www.livescience.com/8496-mind-controlling-parasites-date-millions-years.html http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/zombifying-ant-fungus/?pid=1060&viewall=true http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelytoky http://www.lingolex.com/ants.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_ant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A

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