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TED talks: How Do Ants Know What To Do?

In this talk, ant specialist Deborah Gordan informs us on the basic structure of ant colonies, and how they work.

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1/11/2008 4:07:20 AM

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Batman! : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

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315 days 20 hours ago...

I`m about to piss my self!

Nah, but that was very interesting.

5/5 Keep these TED clips coming.

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DOWNCAST : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

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315 days 19 hours ago...

yes very interesting
heres a better quality one: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/145

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Gumpster : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

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315 days 17 hours ago...

love ted

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psychobutt : LVL 25: VP 3.4: said:

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315 days 12 hours ago...

i love ted more than you

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Trizza : LVL 2: VP 1.1: said:

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315 days 11 hours ago...

Incredible Video, makes me want to start an ant colony and let it grow for 5 years...
Well worth the 20 minutes!

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Great Googly Moogly : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

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315 days 11 hours ago...

Virgin Unmated Queen with Wings?

I want one of those.

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cavey : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

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315 days 9 hours ago...

interesting talk but i could never imagine dedicating my life to looking at ants

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Omnicron.4735 : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

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315 days 8 hours ago...

TED rocks!
5/5

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Vidder : LVL 27: VP 3.6: said:

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315 days 7 hours ago...

i have yet to see a TED talk that was uninteresting to me. These are awesome!

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aquamammal : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

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315 days 6 hours ago...

Go to TED.com to see all the talks and have a bigger screen to see them.

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Killer@nz : LVL 18: VP 2.7: said:

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315 days 4 hours ago...

Insert generic TED appreciation comment

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revoke : LVL 11: VP 2: said:

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315 days 4 hours ago...

i want to tie her to her ant colony and tape all her orrifice open... i bet she would learn more...

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stbasdf : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

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315 days 1 hour ago...

ants are incredible. i think ants make up a lot of the biomass of the entire planet. they have interesting interactions with other organisms too. well every living thing interacts with everything else around it. but there are ants that clean off fruit chunks from tree seeds, use their saliva to disinfect the seeds, and bury the seeds to give them more chances to grow into trees to drop more fruit. some grow mushrooms for food like a farm. they do all sorts of interesting stuff. always interesting things to see about creatures that you rarely think about.

15 years?? isn`t that longer than the lifespan of some dogs or cats? i wonder what happens when the queen dies, does the colony just die out? she said virgin queens leave the colony, so it doesn`t seem like anyone takes the dead queen`s place

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Davo69 : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

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315 days ago...

Bitch ain`t got no life. Who the fuck wants to know shit about ants?? Unless of course she informs us of a much better way of getting rid of these fuckers.

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