Ain\'t nature wonderful (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Saturday, September 11, 2010, 22:02 (5186 days ago) @ David Turell

Say it with me...."I don't know."-See, it's not so hard. Everything we think we know about this could be wrong, and it would still be amazing and beautiful and wonderous. One thing I noticed about the article though was that it didn't mention if there were or were not any commonalities in the physiology of the dead ants versus unnaffected ones, or if there were any physiological differences in the leaves they were biting into. Perhaps at one point leaves at that layer provided a natural antidote to the fungi's toxicity, so the ants developed the behavior to bite deeply into it. I don't know. Too little data available to guess, and too many assumptions in what data set there is.