"Marvel Science: How Controlling Ants Would Really Work" Topic
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Tango01 | 05 Apr 2019 9:31 p.m. PST |
"Animal communication is a key innovation that allows a species to find resources, perceive danger and respond to it as a group. When these interactions scale up into complexity they start to define how the species' social structure and collective behavior. When we consider behavior in ants, we see the management of hundreds of thousands of individuals working in synchronicity to carry out the necessary chores to sustain a colony. What makes millions of individual ants effective? What do we know about animal collective behavior that can help us understand remote control of the swarms of ants seen in Ant-Man? In 2015's movie Ant-Man and 2018's Ant-Man and the Wasp, characters Hank Pym, Hope Van Dyne, and Scott Lang all have the ability to talk to ants using a special "EMP communication device." This device, an earpiece or built into the helmet of Ant-Man or the Wasp, allows its user to command ants to do a variety of astonishing acts. For example, in Ant-Man, Scott Lang's first success with the device allows him to instruct four ants to lift a penny and spin it. Experienced users are further enabled to instruct ants to carry out some natural behaviors, such as the coordinated formation of bridges and rafts made by fire ants. Users are also able to control ants to carry out behaviors they would never do, such as blocking out lights and cameras, acting as an aerial cavalry, and playing the drums….." Main page link
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