Can you find another ant?

你能找到另一只蚂蚁吗？

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Here's a question - not one that's on everybody's lips, granted - but a question nonetheless: How do ants know when another ant is dead? E.o?

时事纵观，2009年4月1日。有一个问题——不是每个人都挂在嘴边的那些，就算是这样——而是这样一个问题：蚂蚁们怎么得知某只蚂蚁死了？

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Then, I must admit, I was at a bit of a loss—the build demo was driven by an Ant script that was over 800 lines long and included another Ant build file that included a dozen more files.

但是不得不承认，我随后觉得有点儿灰心 — 构建演示是由一个 Ant 脚本驱动的，这个脚本的长度超过 800 行并包含另一个 Ant 构建文件，那个文件又包含十几个文件。

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If you're lucky, as another person; if you're not so lucky, as a pig or a donkey or an ant or what have you.

幸运的话,转世为人,如果不幸运的话,可能会变成猪,驴,蚂蚁等等

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In order to help protect close relatives, termites have been found to explode during fights, bees die after stinging, while the members of another species of ant have been found to condemn themselves to death by sealing in a nesting colony from the outside.

BBC: Earth News - Heroic altruistic ants face death alone to save colony

They tried the ant plant, both with and without ants, and another acacia plant, also with and without ants.

BBC: Ants work with acacia trees to prevent elephant damage

Nigel Raine, another ecologist from Royal Holloway, University of London, also studies these ant plants, and says that giraffes will go ahead and eat the leaves of the plants, although ants will then swarm onto their face and mouth and try to bite them.

BBC: Ants work with acacia trees to prevent elephant damage