Scientists discover swimming ants. :
"'I was actually working with a film crew working on insects in the mangroves and they wanted to film one of these ants and I said, 'Well, lets put it on a rock in a puddle of water and that'll stop it going away and then you'll be able to film it,' and the ant promptly just leapt off the edge of the rock and swam across the water and disappeared.
'We were sort of dumbfounded.'"
Me too, because water has always been used to stop ants! They have never been water babes. The James Cook University team has obviously created some international interest with the discovery of polyrhachis sokolova, the swimming ant. Can't think of anything worse than having ants to content with in the water. They are so persistent! Knowing Austrlai we shall start ant swimming courses and championships.
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