OMG ANTS

Sep 14, 2010 03:11

Here is an example of circular milling:

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A circle of army ants, each one following the ant in front, becomes locked into a circular mill. They will continue to circle each other until they all die. How crazy is that? Sometimes they escape, though. Beebe (1921) described a circular mill he witnessed in Guyana. It measured 1200 feet in circumference and had a 2.5 hour circuit time per ant. The mill persisted for two days, "with ever increasing numbers of dead bodies littering the route as exhaustion took its toll, but eventually a few workers straggled from the trail thus breaking the cycle, and the raid marched off into the forest." from here.

In depth literature here

Insanity o:

Edit:
Bonus youtube doubler time. MOSH

invertebrates, invertebrate, ants, insect

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