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Re:Some Whales Can Eat Upwards of 16 Tons of Tiny Shrimp a Day by otabdeveloper4 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @06:02AM (#29105218)
Ants queens, for example, mate only once in their life and live for up to 20 years. All the individual ants in the colony are effectively clones from the genetic material of that one foundational mating act.

So it makes sense to consider the ant colony to be one "organism", and yes, it's very much a long-lived, intelligent and massive organism.

Re:Some Whales Can Eat Upwards of 16 Tons of Tiny Shrimp a Day by darkerside on Thursday November 04, 2021 @09:15AM (#29106766)
Are twins also one organism?
Re:Some Whales Can Eat Upwards of 16 Tons of Tiny Shrimp a Day by adolph on Thursday November 04, 2021 @09:21AM (#29106829)
In both cases genetics only has a partial say in phenomics.