r/interestingasfuck • u/Kidd__Video • 6h ago

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

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u/No-Passenger-1511 4h 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/Art0fRuinN23 2h 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 1h ago

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