(July 25, 2011 at 9:14 am)Rhythm Wrote: Ants do in fact go to war, they do have weapons (some even chemical weapons), they build fortifications out of sourced material or their own bodies and limbs, arrange themselves into structured social groups, engage in forms of agriculture and slavery, have open and quiet rebellions, care for their young, communicate with each other, and exhibit complicated burial behaviors. Chew on that.
Some of them are even suicide bombers ...
"Its defensive behaviours include self-destruction by autothysis, a term coined by Maschwitz and Maschwitz (1974). Two oversized, poison-filled mandibular glands run the entire length of the ant's body. When combat takes a turn for the worse, the worker ant violently contracts its abdominal muscles to rupture its gaster at the intersegmental fold, which also bursts the mandibular glands, thereby spraying a sticky secretion in all directions from the anterior region of its head. The glue, which also has corrosive properties and functions as a chemical irritant, entangles and immobilizes all nearby victims."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camponotus_saundersi
These ants have been doing this before humans but (obviously) for a different reason than going to Heaven unlike Muslim suicide bombers. Ants are more rational than humans in that regard, at least.
