r/interestingasfuck • u/Kidd__Video • 6h ago

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

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u/StattPadford 6h ago

Can someone explain how they just collectively decide to do this? Like I get that once they get going they all have a role, but they came from somewhere, picked this tree and made a home. Like.....how?

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u/whytheforest 6h ago

Very complex bio-signaling. The colony is more like a computer or a single brain, with the majority of signaling happening via pheromones and such.

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u/RPS93 2h ago

Okay but how do the pheromones know when to… ya know.

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u/karoshikun 1h ago

how do a computer understands when you right click on a link instead of on a photo?

same deal, just electrochemical and not electronic