Illustration from "The living world: a complete natural history of the world's creatures" by J.W.
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There. Is. No. Such. Thing. As. A. "Police Ant"
The strange thing about this engraving? It's a very accurate deception of ants performing "social carrying" I guess they gave it a silly caption to make it more interesting?
Someone was really observing ants and it was not whoever was setting the text.
(A better caption: An ant carries her sister to a new nest. She may be too young to navigate on her own without getting exhausted or lost, or she may be injured and in need of rest.)
@futurebird oh you meant to write “depiction” i think
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There. Is. No. Such. Thing. As. A. "Police Ant"
The strange thing about this engraving? It's a very accurate deception of ants performing "social carrying" I guess they gave it a silly caption to make it more interesting?
Someone was really observing ants and it was not whoever was setting the text.
(A better caption: An ant carries her sister to a new nest. She may be too young to navigate on her own without getting exhausted or lost, or she may be injured and in need of rest.)
@futurebird Thank you for the image of ants with little bobby hats, saying "well, well, well" a lot.
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@futurebird
What cricket said X2.
Ya, that engraving looks to me like it's depicting an adult ant moving a pupa to a different location. There's no way that what it's carrying is another adult ant.Oh it's an adult ant, she's just holding her body like a pupae so she can be carried easily.
I've taken video of this.
myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)
@nev@flipping.rocks "Applications of Social Carrying to GOTV Efforts" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6dsR8PgBSw
Sauropods.win (sauropods.win)
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@futurebird Police ants imply criminal ants and I'm disappointed they don't exist.
Ant crime is, in fact, a big problem. But as with humans, it mostly involves trying to do coups, and take over nests of other ants.
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Oh it's an adult ant, she's just holding her body like a pupae so she can be carried easily.
I've taken video of this.
myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)
@nev@flipping.rocks "Applications of Social Carrying to GOTV Efforts" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6dsR8PgBSw
Sauropods.win (sauropods.win)
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There. Is. No. Such. Thing. As. A. "Police Ant"
The strange thing about this engraving? It's a very accurate deception of ants performing "social carrying" I guess they gave it a silly caption to make it more interesting?
Someone was really observing ants and it was not whoever was setting the text.
(A better caption: An ant carries her sister to a new nest. She may be too young to navigate on her own without getting exhausted or lost, or she may be injured and in need of rest.)
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There. Is. No. Such. Thing. As. A. "Police Ant"
The strange thing about this engraving? It's a very accurate deception of ants performing "social carrying" I guess they gave it a silly caption to make it more interesting?
Someone was really observing ants and it was not whoever was setting the text.
(A better caption: An ant carries her sister to a new nest. She may be too young to navigate on her own without getting exhausted or lost, or she may be injured and in need of rest.)
@futurebird ANT COPS ARE BASTARDS
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There. Is. No. Such. Thing. As. A. "Police Ant"
The strange thing about this engraving? It's a very accurate deception of ants performing "social carrying" I guess they gave it a silly caption to make it more interesting?
Someone was really observing ants and it was not whoever was setting the text.
(A better caption: An ant carries her sister to a new nest. She may be too young to navigate on her own without getting exhausted or lost, or she may be injured and in need of rest.)
@futurebird You're just soft on Ant Crime!
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Illustration from "The living world: a complete natural history of the world's creatures" by J.W. Buel was first published in 1891 (I just scored a copy!)
I'm obsessed with these deep sea creatures that are based on rumors heresy and globsters from fishing nets:
I also have some choice words about the inaccuracy of the section on ants.
@futurebird That red fella with the big mouth in the bottom left looks like something from Sgt. Pepper's!
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There. Is. No. Such. Thing. As. A. "Police Ant"
The strange thing about this engraving? It's a very accurate deception of ants performing "social carrying" I guess they gave it a silly caption to make it more interesting?
Someone was really observing ants and it was not whoever was setting the text.
(A better caption: An ant carries her sister to a new nest. She may be too young to navigate on her own without getting exhausted or lost, or she may be injured and in need of rest.)
@futurebird AACAB
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Ant crime is, in fact, a big problem. But as with humans, it mostly involves trying to do coups, and take over nests of other ants.
@futurebird @dpiponi "worker policing" exist. It occurs when workers try to reproduce (steal reproduction from the queen, as it were). Here is a paper on the phenomenon: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/285/1875/20172548/78872/Social-enforcement-depending-on-the-stage-of
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@futurebird @dpiponi "worker policing" exist. It occurs when workers try to reproduce (steal reproduction from the queen, as it were). Here is a paper on the phenomenon: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/285/1875/20172548/78872/Social-enforcement-depending-on-the-stage-of
ants
