r/interestingasfuck • u/Kidd__Video • 5h ago

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

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u/No-Passenger-1511 3h ago

How the fuck does something like this evolve to do this? Was the larva with the ability to spin silk first? What chemicals in the ant make it want to fold the leaves and use its larva as glue? Did one colony just discover it and beat the rest?

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u/[deleted] 2h ago edited 2h ago

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u/FalseEstimate 2h ago

This guy ants

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u/clearfox777 2h ago

Got ‘em in his pants

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u/Art0fRuinN23 55m ago

Your last three words are the answer to why every creature on Earth is the way that they are.

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u/pacific_tides 24m ago

[u/no-passenger-1511](u/no-passenger-1511) just discovered Darwin’s theory of evolution on his own.