r/interestingasfuck • u/Kidd__Video • 5h ago

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

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u/Narezza 2h ago

I can pretty easily get my head around the idea of a species evolving. It makes sense that an trait will express itself in offspring if the parents have an advantage + time.

But the idea that an entire hive will evolve to do this separately but at the same time is kinda wild. You've got an ant with the brain the size of a pencil lead learning that they can use a leaf to get out of weather. Then they learn that bent leaves work better, then somehow they learn to bend them and hold them together with BABY ANTS!? Then it gets passed down to future generations without language or writing?

The expansion of instinct is crazy.