@Gobabu@futurebird
ha ha ha, that would be wonderful if true, but these ants lived millions of years before the woolly mammoth evolved (in the Pleistocene), and Kenya was far too warm for woolly mammoths.
anyway it reminds me of a weird web page I ran into waaay back in about 2005, all about some person's hypothesis that the parasites which cause mange in some animals had jumped to mammoths and gave them mange and played a role in the extinction of the mammoths.
@futurebird
somebody the other day was asking why some ants pupate without cocoons, and here is a clue:
from near the top of pg 101: "Cocoons are omitted by many of the diverse species of Polyrhachis that are arboreal and use silk produced by their larvae for nest construction."
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"The absence of cocoons is, therefore, correlated, but not perfectly, with the arboricolous habit."
@futurebird oh, thank you, it worked for me, but I have no idea how long it took because I wandered off to go do something instead of waiting for it, and then long after coming back I eventually remembered it and by then it had downloaded.
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