Ant intelligence (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, September 09, 2013, 20:48 (4093 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: I asked why one of several large ants decided to sacrifice itself by blocking the jaws of the mantis, how other ants devised and implemented the strategy of decapitating it, how individuals knew what to do, and what it was they communicated to one another, if there was no intelligent thought behind all of these actions. -My thought, and I can't have any proof, is that the coordinated attack is an instinct in the DNA, developed by epigenetics over millenia. DNA was given this ability to devise plans and instincts. It is still my belief that tyhe ants are acting automatically
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> Thank you for the guppy article. I shall have to leave it till tomorrow. I have a cricket (not an ant) meeting tonight!