Leper Colony.

The Leper Colony. How do you like it?

Baxter is promoted out of the Leper Colony.

Well, he's known as the White Saint of the Leper Colony.

There's a leper colony there and I'm going to teach the sick children.

Colony shape

A nudist colony?

This is a nudist colony.

He is important to the colony.

But what beekeepers can do is, if they have one surviving colony, they can split that colony in two.

This is a three year old colony.

So, things happen to an ant colony.

Zimbabwe was once a colony of Britain.

Kenya used to be a British colony.

It's about a meter tall Pavona clavus colony.

At one time Nigeria was a British colony.

You've got 12 hours to leave the colony.

I've been here five days and I'm treated like a leper.

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

And it would change as the colony gets larger.

Some say that China was like a Russian colony.

And will I let her remain in the colony?

Well, may as well get back to the colony.

Why don't we colonize at the Colony next week?

For 2,500 years we've been nothing but a colony.

And I know how colony size changes as a function of colony age because I've dug up colonies of known age and counted all the ants.

Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

Wait a minute, Kovac! There's no sense treating the man like a leper.

There is no spring nearby from which a leper is allowed to drink.

It feels like I've landed in a colony of angels.

This process changes with colony age, and it changes like this.

I started with the 1607 Massachusetts Bay Colony Pequot Indian Wars.

Makes it a lot easier to put a colony up there.

Puerto Rico was no more a colony than Alaska and Hawaii.

A century later, Puerto Rico was still a United States colony.

This movement intensified as Portugal consolidated its control over the colony.

And then this is how colony size and numbers of worker ants changes so this is about 10,000 worker ants changes as a function of colony age, in years.

So this is the kind of rule that, as the colony develops and gets older and larger, will produce different behavior in an old colony and a small young one.

And that lower photo, that's a bird colony that has been boomed.

So this is the colony founded by a queen the previous summer.

And that lower photo, that's a bird colony that has been boomed.

I just met this fellow, and he treated me like I was a leper or something.

And so this opens up the whole idea of looking at colony health.

This is the nest of the mature colony, and there's the nest entrance.