Ants Food Experiment Video
Ants vs Banana Timelapse Ants Food Experiment
Scientists have now discovered a fascinating new example of this teamwork, finding army ants join their bodies together to form scaffolds that stop nest mates from tumbling down steep terrain. These critters are known to combat rough terrain by joining their bodies together to form bridges and highways for easy passage as they forage for food, and through experiments in the field, the authors have now uncovered another type of self-assembled megastructure.
By redirecting the traffic trails of the army ants, the team created a scenario where they were made to crawl across a tilting platform that could be angled Ants Food Experiment between 20 and 90 degrees from horizontal.
To make sure that every one of them made it across, the ants could be seen joining their bodies together to form a scaffold structure, which acted as a safety net to prevent other ants from tumbling down the face of the platform. Once the scaffolds are in place, the number of falling ants drops to near zero, even when the Ants Food Experiment are forced to traverse across completely vertical slopes. The team says that when the ants sense that they are starting to slip, they are moved to join the megastructure, and are more likely to join it the higher the rate of their slippage.]
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