Natural History Wanderings

NPR reported

Biologist E.O. Wilson once wrote that “ants are the most warlike of all animals,” noting that clashes between ant colonies dwarfed the human battles at Waterloo and Gettysburg. But sometimes ant colonies get conquered not by outright warfare, but by stealth and deceit.

In fact, sometimes the members of an ant colony can get tricked into murdering their own precious queen

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