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Oh To Be The Queen

Credit: Clint Penick

Ants are amazing. They outnumber humans by orders of magnitude, are capable of physical feats that belie their small size, and, according to this article in the New York Times, are capable of regrowing their own brains. More precisely, the Indian jumping ant, Harpegnathos saltator, is capable of shrinking its brain, and then growing it back. Why, you ask, would an Indian jumping do this" As it is with most living creatures, the reasons for the strangest things that happen throughout the course of life can be traced back to an elaborate mating ritual. When the queen of an ant colony dies, the female ants engage in an epic battle-royale to become the new queen, and shrinking one?s brain is a unique quirk of evolution that allows the ants to become lean, mean fighting machines, with a single objective: become the queen, and reproduce. It?s been said that humans are well served to borrow certain organizational efficienci...