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17 Oct 2007 03:08 pm

The Pathos Of Ants

As they grow older, they seem to sense their mortality and try to compensate:

Worker ants accurately gauge their life expectancy, regardless of their actual age, and take on riskier tasks as they feel their days ebbing away.

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