Slavery is good, because ants! Monarchy is good, because ants! When I cherry pick a handful of these species and observe them intentionally through the lens of my own preferred oppressive systems, they totally justify my personal opinions!
Holy shit have these people never even spent 5 seconds watching an ant farm? The closest thing that could even remotely be argued to slavery in the entirety of the animal kingdom is brood parasitism, where a colony will kidnap the brood of other colonies, bring them back to their own colony, and raise them as their own in order to grow their colony size larger and quicker than they otherwise would be able.
Ants are extremely interesting, I highly recommend hanging out with some ants some time, or at least checking out some videos on them. AntsCanada is a pretty good YouTube channel that gives an intro to antkeeping and shows some fun, if dramatized, looks at how ants behave and interact in their colonies.
Haha yeah, definitely a bit of a soap opera, but there have been more than a few videos that are genuinely worthy of the clickbaity title. Discovering a new species in his backyard was pretty dope.
Slavery is good, because ants! Monarchy is good, because ants! When I cherry pick a handful of these species and observe them intentionally through the lens of my own preferred oppressive systems, they totally justify my personal opinions!
Holy shit have these people never even spent 5 seconds watching an ant farm? The closest thing that could even remotely be argued to slavery in the entirety of the animal kingdom is brood parasitism, where a colony will kidnap the brood of other colonies, bring them back to their own colony, and raise them as their own in order to grow their colony size larger and quicker than they otherwise would be able.
I started reading about ants because of this post and found out that ants really care about ethics in gaming journalism .
Ants are extremely interesting, I highly recommend hanging out with some ants some time, or at least checking out some videos on them. AntsCanada is a pretty good YouTube channel that gives an intro to antkeeping and shows some fun, if dramatized, looks at how ants behave and interact in their colonies.
Seconding AntsCanada. I love that guy even if he does make observing ant behavior into a soap opera. It gets people watching.
Haha yeah, definitely a bit of a soap opera, but there have been more than a few videos that are genuinely worthy of the clickbaity title. Discovering a new species in his backyard was pretty dope.