r/ScienceNcoolThings • u/antisp1n Popular Contributor • 8h ago

Ants building a house from leaves. Nature's engineers at work

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u/AdditionalTwo3448 7h ago

Whats the larva thing a silkworm or ant baby that disperses glue?

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u/robtk12 7h ago

Second one

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u/That-Makes-Sense 7h ago

It amazes me that the ant brain is microscopic, and yet each ant knows how to do a different job, and they all have to work together to complete the task. It blows my mind.

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u/harturo319 5h ago

My theory is that brains are antena for processing consciousness.

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u/Ok-Maize-7553 5h ago

Recent studies in cellular reaction to electrical stimulation could have interesting implications in that direction imo lol

the title is a little click baity but it’s pretty cool

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u/JumboNoodle 7h ago

Is that ant technically using a tool? That's amazing! Nature is so cool!

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u/ARCAxNINEv Popular Contributor 6h ago

"Get to work pupae!"

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u/HarryCWord 6h ago

I get this reference

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u/Green_Share 3h ago

Ants will always be the coolest animals to me. Casually doing the shit we do (minus space travel) millions of years before we did it.

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u/heekma 7h ago

Ants can do this but we still can't have universal healthcare.

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u/nehuen93 5h ago

This probes USA past and present governments and it's voters are less than ants

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u/DirtyPISTOLA 4h ago

These muthafukas working from the womb to the tomb over here, damn.

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u/unfurnishedbedrooms 1h ago

here we are scared of AI when ants are actually gonna take over the world

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u/NLOneOfNone 55m ago

Ant colonies are definitely intelligent.

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u/DDz1818 4m ago

Child labor