I think a living human who smelled like a rotting corpse would be forced to go away from other people too.
Probably not getting buried, though.
Probably.
smells itself
eh I guess I died…
“Ed Wilson”
More commonly known as E. O. Wilson in his publications. Highly important scientist. Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Read his book “The Social Conquest of Earth” if this intrigues you.
Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Source? Eusociality does not involve any sort of ‘hierarchical pecking order’. The requirements are co-operative childcare, overlapping generations and division of labour.
Sounds like propaganda tbh
“I swear I’m not dead!”
“Yea we don’t care, you smell dead and it’s disgusting, leave until you take a bath”
why doesn’t the ant that was sprayed on carry itself away.
It would be inappropriate for a dead ant to move.
Moving means partly alive, but partly alive means mostly dead, so off you go!
fist time in earth history to get a day off
Could you imagine the confusion if you are used to it though… you’ve considered this scent to mean dead your whole life. would be kind of like as a human noticing your heart isn’t beating, your skin is pale… realizing you are in a coffin and everyone’s performing a service… hmm… guess I am dead. course I guess that’s kind of the difference is humans aren’t so accepting of things. we could be unable to move, realize we are looking from the perspective of our head, which is on the ground 2’ away from the rest of our body and our first thought would be, "Hey can you hear me? Hello!!.
Rookie move.
Love me some pictures for sad children
Have another.
Have a PNG version.
And another.
Have a picture of a signed physical copy.
E.O. Wilson is a monster scientist. His book “The Ants” is mind-bogglingly thorough
Also, Social Conquest of Earth.
E.O. Wilson is my hero. More people should study his work for how to approach science. Passion and curiosity got him everywhere.
Well damn. I wasn’t expecting to be adding a new book to my reading list as a result of this thread, but y’all’s enthusiasm is such that I feel I have to.
“The Ants” isn’t casual reading, it’s a dense compendium of everything known about ants, covering every known genus and their morphology and behavior. There’s a key, too, so you can identify ants based on their morphology, assuming you ever feel like counting antennomeres or tarsal segments.
