Thanks to Andy K. for sending me this article which reminded him
of my Life in the Ant Farm post. From the article: society:
Scientists excavate underground ant city that 'rivals the Great
Wall of China' with a labyrinth of highways The community of
ants – described as a ‘superorganism’ because of the way they
coordinated themselves – carried out a Herculean task building
their giant home. The leaf-chewing creatures are understood to
form the second most complex societies on Earth after our own."
The article is all about the amazing 3 min. video below. But as
a quick introduction, here's an excerpt from my post: Life in
the Ant Farm Did you ever have an ant farm when you were little?
An ant farm makes the ants' behavior easily visible and
controllable. They are imprisoned in a two-dimensional world in
which their decisions are limited and their needs are met by
you! They can only go side to side and up and down. And up
usually leads them to the leaf you dropped into the ant farm for
their lunch! But in Ants f