Bert Holldobler Quotes

• Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as a coherent unit and compared with the organism in the design of experiments, with the individuals treated as the rough analogues of cells.

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• If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.

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  Nuclear   World   Weapons  

  Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson (1994). “Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration”, Belknap Press

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• The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.

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  Nuclear   World   Weapons  

  Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson (1994). “Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration”, Belknap Press

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• We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.

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  Play   Ants   Behavior  

  Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson (1990). “The Ants”, p.370, Harvard University Press

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