Romantic Ants
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Hey! We're here with Corrie Moreau, who's the curator of insects here at the Field Museum.- Hi! - Hey! And today, we're going to talk about ants!- And ant sex. For Valentine's Day. - Yeah! 'Cause there's nothing more romantic than ant sex.- So this is actually a worker of a turtle ant in the genus Cephalotes.One of the things I love about this ant is sort of the remarkable anatomy of it. So you see this head capsule is a totally different shape than all the other individuals in the nest.So most individuals in the nest look like this small one here, where they don't have this odd-shaped head.Where, in the larger individuals in the nest, we actually see that they have this large head capsule- and you see it almos...
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Hey! We're here with Corrie Moreau, who's the curator of insects here at the Field Museum.- Hi! - Hey! And today, we're going to talk about ants!- And ant sex. For Valentine's Day. - Yeah! 'Cause there's nothing more romantic than ant sex.- So this is actually a worker of a turtle ant in the genus Cephalotes.One of the things I love about this ant is sort of the remarkable anatomy of it. So you see this head capsule is a totally different shape than all the other individuals in the nest.So most individuals in the nest look like this small one here, where they don't have this odd-shaped head.Where, in the larger individuals in the nest, we actually see that they have this large head capsule- and you see it almos...
