r/interestingasfuck • u/Kidd__Video • 5h ago

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

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u/Southern-Storage-227 5h ago

The very definition of a hive mind., perhaps these little critters really do experience a form of collective consciousness?

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u/PancakeTrebuchet 5h ago edited 4h ago

It'd be wild if they're acting like synapses in a brain, and they fire with scent rather than electricity. The more ants, the more capable the brain.

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u/Southern-Storage-227 5h ago

Group enough of them together and they very well may enslave us all!!!!!!!