Guamer [she/her]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-21 个月前So much for the taller ant Lefthexbear.netimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up185arrow-down10
arrow-up185arrow-down1imageSo much for the taller ant Lefthexbear.netGuamer [she/her]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-21 个月前message-square10fedilink
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 个月前Scientists actually did this to ants to determine whether they navigated by counting their steps
minus-squareTankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-21 个月前 “Gotta get my 10k steps in today.”
minus-squareRobert_Kennedy_Jr [xe/xem, xey/xem]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-21 个月前What the fuck they cut some of the ants legs and made them walk on stumps. Of course they’re German.
minus-squarethe_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 个月前Wait a tic counting? there’s a science explanation or ‘counting’ is the layman’s term for what they’re doing? I’m asking cuz i was under the impression most animals don’t know numbers at all
minus-squareHexboare [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 个月前Whole wiki page for it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sense_in_animals
minus-squarethe_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 个月前Well I’ll be. Thanks!
minus-squarePoogona [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 个月前What the fuck this is MY trivia to bring into convos this is THEFT (Ants also do complex geometry by instinct and they even triangulate positions with the sun as reference, they are amazing)
Scientists actually did this to ants to determine whether they navigated by counting their steps
The results?
They do.
“Gotta get my 10k steps in today.”
What the fuck they cut some of the ants legs and made them walk on stumps. Of course they’re German.
Wait a tic counting? there’s a science explanation or ‘counting’ is the layman’s term for what they’re doing? I’m asking cuz i was under the impression most animals don’t know numbers at all
Whole wiki page for it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sense_in_animals
Well I’ll be. Thanks!
What the fuck this is MY trivia to bring into convos this is THEFT
(Ants also do complex geometry by instinct and they even triangulate positions with the sun as reference, they are amazing)