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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP29 Jun 2019 9:19 p.m. PST

….'SHOCK AND AWE' OF ANT WARFARE

"In war, they've done the horrific. They've looted food from enemy homes – maybe even killing the women and children. They've employed suicide bombings. They've launched toxic attacks. They've even engaged in cannibalism.

Ants, that is.

Ant colonies bear similarities to human communities: That's been fleshed out and personified before, from sharply delineated social order to death rituals to strict punishment for illicit behavior and treachery.

They've got complex societies with a rigid division of labor and ingrained conventions that let them eat, reproduce and wage war as a single unit. Given their massive populations and, as the famed entomologist E.O. Wilson writes, their "unity of purpose [and] social machinery," it's no surprise that ants are also bonafide masters of war…."
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goragrad30 Jun 2019 10:27 p.m. PST

Didn't someone just post on another topic that without 'politics' there is no war…

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP03 Jul 2019 7:41 p.m. PST

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