Ant mega-colony takes over world

Re:Ant mega-colony takes over world by jwecker on Thursday July 02, 2009 @11:26AM (#684537)

"those living within each super-colony are tolerant of one another, even if they live tens or hundreds of kilometres apart."

Good thing. I'd hate to see ants fighting when they're that far away from each other.

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Re:Ant mega-colony takes over world by jsonscripter on Thursday July 02, 2009 @01:15PM (#684740)

They're talking about if you took samples from colonies hundreds of kilometres apart, the ants would consider each other family and part of the same colony. This is astonishing, since usually ants fight anything that is hostile to their colony.

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Re:Ant mega-colony takes over world by shard on Thursday July 02, 2009 @03:52PM (#685047)

Am I the only one who read the OP as sarcasm?

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Re:Ant mega-colony takes over world by jwecker on Thursday July 02, 2009 @06:25PM (#685302)

more playfulness (:

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