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Fire Ant Raft Survival Secrets Discovered
In order to escape death by flooding, fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) will grab onto each other to form floating rafts, marvels of biological engineering that allow them to preserve their colony on the surface of the water for months. A team of engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology has analyzed the architecture of fire ant rafts in order to discover their survival secrets, and what the engineers have found may have ramifications for the design of robots.
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Great read, thanks for sharing! It's truly incredible that creates we would write off as having almost no intelligence are able to construct such elaborate and effective structures that up until now we didn't really understand.