Madbrad200@lemmy.world to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year agoTIL an ant mega-colony exists across 3 continents and is thought to contain billions of ants, all of which recognise each other to be from the same colony. The largest part of the colony is in Europenews.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down11cross-posted to: til@lemmy.worldTodayILearned@kbin.socialtodayilearned@lemmy.worldtodayilearned@lemmy.ml
arrow-up132arrow-down1external-linkTIL an ant mega-colony exists across 3 continents and is thought to contain billions of ants, all of which recognise each other to be from the same colony. The largest part of the colony is in Europenews.bbc.co.ukMadbrad200@lemmy.world to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square8fedilinkcross-posted to: til@lemmy.worldTodayILearned@kbin.socialtodayilearned@lemmy.worldtodayilearned@lemmy.ml
minus-squarephx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoI wonder if they have some sort of deep under-sea network that allows access to other continents or if they just recognize a common pheromone etc from their cousins who hitched a boat etc to a new home
I wonder if they have some sort of deep under-sea network that allows access to other continents or if they just recognize a common pheromone etc from their cousins who hitched a boat etc to a new home
The latter