We have been deceived! Ants don’t like to work! Scientists tear the veils

2017-12-08 15:46

We have been deceived! Ants don’t like to work! Scientists tear the veils
We believed them and gave them the example, but it turns out that the ants all this time we were deceived. They are as lazy as we are.

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Perhaps this is the most shocking change of the world picture, reports Rus.Media. The benefit of this quality advertise more fabulist Krylov, followed by all the literature, where ants appeared, at least in the episodes. But then came Daniel Charbonneau and Anna Dornhaus from the University of Arizona and the world will never be the same.

This Arizona scientists came up with the idea to identify ants in laboratory colonies of five different colors to distinguish individuals, and then withdraw all their lives for the camera and understand how the rest of their employment relationship. But no one expected such news. It turned out that only 2.6 percent of the ants are constantly working, that is, behave as expected from the ants. 70 percent worked only half the time, then began to mimic the activity. And 25 percent didn’t do anything, just aimlessly wandered around.

First, scientists have decided that the work of the ants shift or that part of the ants perform functions that are hidden from the eye. But no, experiments have shown that a quarter of the ants, figuratively speaking, sitting on the couch with a beer and flip the remote. While they fed and chased. Yet it turned out that the ants are lazy abdomen more than others. Not surprisingly, we observe that even in the higher primates.

When research continued, new details have emerged. If the colonies took the part of the industrious ants right, the same piece lazy suddenly found in myself the motivation and went to work. If took away the bums, they had not been replaced, just in their place was born a new. The colony with lazy, grew faster than the left only workaholics. And so, although scientists always caution against analogies, but recall the history of how different human modes fought the parasites, then the hippies, then the other deviations from the image of the ideal member of society. As a result of deviation back to the original percentage as soon as the fight was stopped.

What to ants, recently, Arizona researchers traced more than 20 colonies for two years, came to the final conclusion: lazy – a labor and a genetic reserve. They are fed for the fact that any loss — boar sat on an ant hill or something — they just take the job, and life goes on without interruption. About people, scientists said nothing, but no one now bothers you to lie on the couch with a beer and to realize themselves as an important resource and the basis of genetic diversity. The city’s just so similar to an anthill, and hence the theory is good for life. It is not refuted.