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My house is filled with termites. At least ants are better than these drywood eaters.
cool this will help so many people
that is sooo helpful
cool this will help so many people
Ants are crawling around my home. And my mom used to have cancer I think. Good job ants
Interesting, but a bit yucky :)
Its cool and all but dont dogs already do this?
I already have a dog so yay I'm cancer proof
not really tbh
Yeah, but the point is that ants take much less time to train than dogs
Yeah but it takes up to a year to train a dog to find cancer but it can take an ant only like 30 minutes as the last paragraph said.
SO COOL!!! ( now I want pet ants )
I want pet ants to.
Ant fun fact!- ants are not affected by old age like humans are! In elderly humans, the levels of two brain chemicals, serotonin and dopamine, plummet. Low levels of serotonin causes memory loss and inability to learn, while dopamine affects physical movement as well as learning. However, old ant workers showed no dip in these chemicals. What do all these results mean? Age has no effect on ant behavior. Old workers had just an acute sense of smell as younger ones. They were strong enough to walk great distances looking for food. Back in the nest, they are better nurturers of larvae, nimbly cleaning eggs and feeding larvae. These workers work till the last weeks of their life.
ok so ants are realy cool and super cool i own an ant farm and the zoo but also iam bill gates the worlds youngest perdon
I know right ants are so cool
I know right ants are like amazing