Throughout the animal kingdom, for example ants. Ants play.

Ants never make more ants colonies make more colonies.

Now ants most ants, including these, don't see very well.

And these ants are called harvester ants because they eat seeds.

Then, as soon as the ants the first group of ants emerge, they're larvae. Then they're pupae. Then they come out as adult ants.

Deborah Gordon digs ants

But the idea is that the ants are in there, and each ant is experiencing a certain flow of ants past it a stream of contacts with other ants.

And so my house came down, I received my first patent against carpenter ants, termites and fire ants.

And this is true of most ants that the ants you see walking around don't do much eating.

Till, when they came to the valley of the ants, one of the ants said O ants! Enter your dwellings, lest Sulaiman (Solomon) and his hosts crush you, while they perceive not.

Till, when they came to the valley of the ants, one of the ants said O ants! Enter your dwellings, lest Sulaiman (Solomon) and his hosts crush you, while they perceive not.

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Ants and giraffes are distant cousins.

Ants and giraffes are distant relatives.

At length, when they came to a (lowly) valley of ants, one of the ants said O ye ants, get into your habitations, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you (under foot) without knowing it.

At length, when they came to a (lowly) valley of ants, one of the ants said O ye ants, get into your habitations, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you (under foot) without knowing it.

And they sort of stand as a buffer in between the ants working deep inside the nest and the ants working outside.

And one day I looked in, they were all dead ants that had gotten into my laptop and perished those poor ants!

A lot of people talk about ants.

There are about 10,000 species of ants.

(Solomon was once on the move with them) until when they reached a valley of ants one of the ants said O ants, get into your holes, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you (under their feet) without even knowing.

(Solomon was once on the move with them) until when they reached a valley of ants one of the ants said O ants, get into your holes, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you (under their feet) without even knowing.

So, the ants in the older colony that seem to be more stable are not any older than the ants in the younger colony.

So these ants don't have any central coordinator.

Our house was being destroyed by carpenter ants.

Why do we study ants? Well, it's interesting.

You can imagine ants on one of them thinking it's a two dimensional universe, not being aware of another population of ants on the other.

Till, when they reached the Valley of the Ants, an ant exclaimed O ants! Enter your dwellings lest Solomon and his armies crush you, unperceiving.

Till, when they reached the Valley of the Ants, an ant exclaimed O ants! Enter your dwellings lest Solomon and his armies crush you, unperceiving.

till, when they came on the Valley of Ants, an ant said, 'Ants, enter your dwelling places, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you, being unaware!'

till, when they came on the Valley of Ants, an ant said, 'Ants, enter your dwelling places, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you, being unaware!'

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Ants have been around for several hundred million years.

And the ants that are waiting just inside the nest entrance to decide whether to go out on their next trip, are contacting the ants coming in.

Until, when they came upon the Valley of Ants, an ant said, O ants! Go into your nests, lest Solomon and his troops crush you without noticing.

Until, when they came upon the Valley of Ants, an ant said, O ants! Go into your nests, lest Solomon and his troops crush you without noticing.

and when they came to the Valley of the Ants, an ant said 'Ants, go into your dwellings lest Solomon and his army should, unknowingly, crush you'

and when they came to the Valley of the Ants, an ant said 'Ants, go into your dwellings lest Solomon and his army should, unknowingly, crush you'

and when they came to the Valley of the Ants, one ant said, Ants! Go into your dwellings, in case Solomon and his hosts inadvertently crush you.

and when they came to the Valley of the Ants, one ant said, Ants! Go into your dwellings, in case Solomon and his hosts inadvertently crush you.

Something that they're doing is clearly successful enough that this pattern of haphazard contacts, in the aggregate, produces something that allows ants to make a lot more ants.

Until when they came to the valley of the ants, a she ant exclaimed, O ants, enter your houses may not Sulaiman and his armies crush you, unknowingly.

Until when they came to the valley of the ants, a she ant exclaimed, O ants, enter your houses may not Sulaiman and his armies crush you, unknowingly.

4,000 of those ants live exclusively in the forest canopy.

Then we repeated all those experiments with the ants marked.