On 9 May 2014 23:03, Samiya Illias <[email protected]> wrote: > Links on Ant Communication below your comment: > > > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 9:42 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 5 May 2014 16:16, Samiya Illias <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:24 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Yes, good point. It seems likely to me that people would notice that >>>> there was a queen bee who laid all the eggs, and perhaps make some >>>> assumptions based on that. If they noticed that the queen started as a >>>> normal worker but was fed special stuff to make her into the queen... well, >>>> people weren't stupid in those days! (Just badly informed on many >>>> matters).. >>>> >>>> In the interests of full disclosure, I should also quote the Bible. >>>> >>>> Proverbs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Proverbs>, Chapter 6, >>>> verse 6: "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider *her *ways, and be >>>> wise". >>>> >>> >>> [Quran 27:18] Till, when they reached the Valley of the Ants, an >>> (female) ant exclaimed: O ants! Enter your dwellings lest Solomon and his >>> armies crush you, unperceiving. >>> >> >> If scientists discover that ants can speak, you will definitely be onto >> something! >> > > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant#Communication > Ants communicate with each other using pheromones, sounds, and touch... > Some ants produce sounds by stridulation, using the gaster segments and > their mandibles. Sounds may be used to communicate with colony members or > with other species. > link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs002650050292 > ... The results support the hypothesis that leaf-cutting ant workers > stridulate during cutting in order to recruit nestmates, and that the > observed mechanical facilitation of stridulation is an epiphenomenon of > recruitment communication. > > So either the original writer could understand ant communication using pheremones etc, OR they anthropomorphised the ants... hm.
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