Hi
Before Mike leads us off into a pseudo-scientific Freudian explanation, how
about the more mundane hypothesis that most people in the west probably
associate termites with home structures, rather than mounds of dirt, with which
we normally associate ants? Actually it might be a fun
Now that we are arguing about ants and termites,
I am curious whether sociobiologist Wilson was studying ants or termites in
Panama.
Btw,any indication that since British and American expressions and nomemclature
vary,termites and ants could mean the same.
Michael omnicentric Sylvester,PhD
1) Chimps are apes. They are NOT monkeys
2) They were eating termites (more closely related to cockroaches than to ants)
3) The young female Japanese macaque who invented potato washing also invented
a technique for separating wheat from sand. She was something of a monkey
genius.
4) The NOVA
Michael Sylvester asks:
I am curious whether sociobiologist Wilson was studying
ants or termites in Panama.
There is no entry for termites in the index of E. O. Wilson's
autobiography *Naturalist*.
Allen E.
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