I've had a bit of an ant infestation at a house I'm renting temporarily and I've been watching them and seen them do some pretty amazing stuff, intelligent stuff. Such as organize themselves in ways to solve pretty complex problems and even try help other injured or dying ants. These are ants, they're tiny little things.
Then I read the article here about killer wales destroying ships and other things they've learned, also the fact they get depressed when in captivity.
I couldn't agree more with you, and I also think it' why we should me more careful with the harms of our technological progress. It's not up to us alone to decide if we deploy some technology that destroys habitats, we should be equally careful when trying to "fix" habitats that we don't do a lot of harm as well.
One of the strangest behaviours I've seen from ants is seeing them(forest ants I believe) walk around on a catnip plant, clearly intoxicated, i.e unable to do anything but walk back and forth meaninglessly on the branches. And yet they seemed to seek out these catnip plants in significant numbers, which almost suggested some vague intent to get high.
As fascinating as the ants are, have you told the person you're renting from about the ant infestation? You might want to do that sooner rather than later, lest they blame you for the ants...
I've had a bit of an ant infestation at a house I'm renting temporarily and I've been watching them and seen them do some pretty amazing stuff, intelligent stuff. Such as organize themselves in ways to solve pretty complex problems and even try help other injured or dying ants. These are ants, they're tiny little things.
Then I read the article here about killer wales destroying ships and other things they've learned, also the fact they get depressed when in captivity.
I couldn't agree more with you, and I also think it' why we should me more careful with the harms of our technological progress. It's not up to us alone to decide if we deploy some technology that destroys habitats, we should be equally careful when trying to "fix" habitats that we don't do a lot of harm as well.