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Myrmecology (ANTS) Encore with Dr. Terry McGlynn
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What's the Coolest Thing You've Ever Seen in the Field?
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The coolest thing i've ever seen are kidnapper ants. They go on seasonable raids where they steal other colonies' brood and bring them back to their own nest, raising them up. There's two kinds of workers in a kidnapper ant colony: the ones who were actually kidnapped as well as those that thought they belonged there. And so we know that kidnapper ants will use farimones to disrupt the communication of the colonies. So does that mean that the kidnapper aunt queen is kind of like a cult leader? She like a david caress, just like jones, like she's like, you belong here and you love it. Keep working. You totally cnmag
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