[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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