SUPERIOR FEMALE ANTS.
Ladies would be interested to know, said a well-known authority m Sydney Recently, that the male, ant's brain was much Braßller than that of the female ant, especially the unmarried female. Tbe male's brain had run to eyes, lots of, eyes: "He keeps ' on tbe watch for the mother of the
community." (Laughter). Scientists nowadays were r.ot inclined to be lieve the ant's co-operation was th< result of intelligence. It was an opei question whether ants were not men mechanisms. Yet they did wonderfu things. They kept cows and milket them, though no doubt they did no' deliberarely domesticate them as w< did cattle And the large white ants of America, repeating history, made slave raids on black ant a , and i: their slaves weri> taken away thi raiders would rather die than stretcl out a limb, even to fetd themselves As to bees, it way interesting t( note that if the royal brood was de stroyed they would form anothei merely by giving the embryos twice the food they .needed to become mere workers.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10073, 20 June 1910, Page 4
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178SUPERIOR FEMALE ANTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10073, 20 June 1910, Page 4
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