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Post by Wood~Ant on Mar 7, 2017 9:23:50 GMT
These ants can survive for only a few minutes outside the cool of their nest at temperatures as high as 50 Celsius. They collect prey that has been disabled by the heat of the hot desert sun, but have to move fast before they too die by being burned alive.
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Post by andavane on Mar 8, 2017 20:22:01 GMT
Gosh! Not possible to replicate those conditions indoors, I guess.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Mar 9, 2017 8:18:46 GMT
Gosh! Not possible to replicate those conditions indoors, I guess. Not unless you can turn your home into a virtual oven, as 50 Celsius is 122 degrees Fahrenheit or 320 degrees Kelvin. You would roast to death in this kind of heat, as the ants only forage out of their nest for about half an hour each day; and then each worker can only survive maybe 6 or 7 minutes before they have to get back underground, as insects don't sweat due to having a hard exoskeleton which absorbs heat, but doesn't let it their bodies get cool like we can. Although the silver ant does reflect some heat away from its body like a mirror. Even the film crew had to keep drinking a lot and shading themselves while filming this ant species for the BBC. |
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