On the day after Thanksgiving, NPR decided to strangely dump a fantastic piece of evergreen content on the internet. Why they would choose to do this on a day when more people weren’t paying attention I don’t know. It’s an animated video that humorously illustrates an experiment that was designed to find out if ants have internal pedometers– basically, if when they go back and forth to the nest they are counting their steps.
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Do Ants Count Their Steps? Watch this Great 4 Minute Video to Find Out
Posted in Animals, Science, tagged ants, desert, National Public Radio, NPR, research, Science, video on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
