Ain\'t nature wonderful (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, September 11, 2010, 22:55 (5186 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained


>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.-Those are good guesses. Need to analyze the leaves and I'm sure someone will do it, considering the curiosity of scientists.