As if job prospects weren’t already bad enough for myrmecologists, now we’re competing with chimps.
At least they haven’t figured out how to make pooters. Yet.
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As if job prospects weren’t already bad enough for myrmecologists, now we’re competing with chimps.
At least they haven’t figured out how to make pooters. Yet.
This manner of catching ants by chimpansees is already known from the seventies. Gotwald gives already a review of the behavior in 1982 in his “The Army Ants” in volume 4 of “Social Insects”, edited by H. Hermann.
We’ll be done for if chimps ever take up photography.
And all the time I thought Alex was Ant-Meister…
I blame the lack of NASA funding.
Suddenly the slogan “DNA barcoding is so easy even a chimp can do it” took a whole new meaning…
I remember seeing that old documentaires of chimps digging up ants and termites. Does anyone know which one that was? Maybe a National Geographic?