@futurebird Police ants imply criminal ants and I'm disappointed they don't exist.

@claralistensprechen5th

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)

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.)

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.)

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.)

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.

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.)

@dpiponi

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