[ExI] ants again
Bryan Bishop
kanzure at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 03:27:28 UTC 2008
On Sunday 14 September 2008, spike wrote:
> I don't know what in the hell to think now. Surely they don't reason
> in any real sense. How did they figure out how to jump across?
Have you considered the ants from the rain forests? Apparently some of
these ants have evolved to glide because in the rain forests, falling
off a tree means days of climbing back up. So when they fall off by
mistake, they can glide back to the trunk without falling to the floor.
- Bryan
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