Sunday Night Movie: Ants Get Political

How did they catch this footage of an ANTi-pesticide protest? Here's a peek behind the scenes.

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Ingenious how they did that.

However, if I'm going to spend that much time printing out and cutting up tiny little labels, I want to be able to put them on a pinned insect specimen afterwards :)

Ted- If we were to combine the two approaches we could have self-labeling insect specimens.

This is an amazing advance in the intelligence of these Brazilian ants. I wonder when North American ants will catch up?

By James C. Trager (not verified) on 03 May 2010 #permalink

Finally the media is giving attention to this issue. The Syndicate for Ant's Welfare has long been struggling against those vicious corporations, such as Baygon... =P

By Thiago Sanches (not verified) on 03 May 2010 #permalink