September 12, 2017 07:37 am PDT
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About 40% of "worker" ants just hang around, doing nothing
Ants are cultural signifiers of busy industriousness, but a new paper in Plos One reveals that, across species, about 40% of "worker" ants spend most of their days doing nothing. (more…)
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