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Plural of deer is deer btw, just like moose
mooses
møøse
Unless you're talking about multiple species of deer.
True, same with fish and fishes. English is fun
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Why is it bad when ants do it?
Ants follow eachother in a line so they don't get lost on their way back to the nest. When they've lost track of the scent for any number of different reasons back to the nest they will follow the ant in front of them for guidance eventually turning into a "death spiral" seen in the picture. The ants are lost and will never find their way home and will march to their deaths.
This death spiral/"ant mill" is actually quite short, though still deadly - in the worst case scenarios, a death spiral can be literally kilometers long, some ants might not even make a single revolution around it, which is kinda terrifying to think about.
I'm not an ant, so it's not really scary at all to me.
You don't follow the pheromones of fellow humans when you lose track of home?
I did once, but I got arrested.
And banned from Sea World?
:(
Makes you wonder why they’d shout hurrah in that situation.
They run in that circle until they die because they're all following the one in front of them.
Can’t you redirect their focus by dropping something nutritious nearby?
They're just following the trail of pheromones ahead of them. It goes around in circles so they'll just walk and walk until they die of exhaustion.
Never heard about it so had to read up on it, it's as obscure as a rat king to me.
rat kings are mostly fake though
Current sience says it's very rare, but can happen naturally. There are multiple confirmed modern sightings.
I did say "most," 1963, 2005 and 2021 are the only real ones I can find.
Compared to there being dozens in the 17th and 18th centuries
I imagine we did more rat watching back then.
They didn't have YouTube.
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Circle of death! Rip circle ants.
How do we make this just, you know, happen I fuckin hate ants
There's zero reason to hate ants? What a lame comment.
Have you had ants setup shop in your coffee maker before, or you cereal? Ants that follow you to work in your butt crack somehow? Lucky you.
Personally input everything with sugar in it in a sealed container. Started doing that about 8 years ago and I've never had an issue with ants since (they were the reason I started doing that).
Butcrack ants are pretty funny though
I always get ants in my bathroom, there's no sugar in my bathroom.
They're going after my fucking water.
I believe they usually follow the trail of the ants walking infront of them so when they're walking in a circle they'll technically walk in a circle indefinitely.
Sounds not too different from capitalism and humans in 2023 in general lol
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Reindeer* domesticated btw.
Is this the Kabba?
I had actually never heard of the ant one before
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