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As if job prospects weren't already bad enough for myrmecologists, now we're competing with chimps.
At least they haven't figured out how to make pooters. Yet.
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This manner of catching ants by chimpansees is already known from the seventies. Gotwald gives already a review of the behavior in 1982 in his "The Army Ants" in volume 4 of "Social Insects", edited by H. Hermann.
We'll be done for if chimps ever take up photography.
And all the time I thought Alex was Ant-Meister...
I blame the lack of NASA funding.
Suddenly the slogan "DNA barcoding is so easy even a chimp can do it" took a whole new meaning...
I remember seeing that old documentaires of chimps digging up ants and termites. Does anyone know which one that was? Maybe a National Geographic?