Hat-tip: Annalee Newitz:
Crazy Brazilian pranksters managed to get a colony of real ants to carry tiny protest signs in a demonstration against the insecticide Baygon. Need I say that I welcome our new insect overlords?
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Hah, that's pretty clever. :)
I am not an ant-expert, but it looked like the ants were trying to get those things off of them.
Look how they did it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa3Vy2OgAT4&feature=watch_response
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Oh, great, Luiza - thank you.