Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Ants soldiers jump off the nest with their intruders!

Ants soldiers jump off the nest with their intruders!


When junk is captured, the soldier ant Malagidris Sofina , Madagascar, do not hesitate to drop him down from his nest to the extract. Once on the ground, it goes back to the colony. http://enjoycoloring.com/ This radical defense strategy is new to science because ants tend to use the jump to move or to escape a predator.

On 08/14/2014 at 13:32 - By Andrea Haug, Futura-Sciences

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At the heart of a colony of Malagidris Sofina, an ant of another species is introduced to the clamp.  Soldier wins then the intruder near the nest funnel and flows with it into space.  © Jackson Helms, University of Oklahoma
At the heart of a colony of Malagidris Sofina , an ant of another species is introduced to the clamp. Soldier wins then the intruder near the nest funnel and flows with it into space. © Jackson Helms, University of Oklahoma
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Malagasy ants Malagidris Sofina , endemic to the island , do not have vertigo. On the cliffs of clay or rock, they build nests whose entrance forms a horizontal funnel at a height measured from the ground between 10 centimeters to 3 meters.

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