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Ants: bottom-up design intelligence

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Ants are facinating little creatures. So we all know ants can carry 10 times their own body weight but who knew that they were capable of creating these networks of space some 10 feet deep under ground? An ant mound works in a bottom-up relationship. One ant transfers a message to an ajacent ant and the process continues until every ant has recieved the

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message. This system is simply a variation of the telephone game. Interesting that they create fairly consistent

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