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A Ball Of Fire Ants Behaves Like A Material
In this video, about 8,000 fire ants are placed in a beaker. The walls of the beaker are lightly dusted with talc powder to prevent the ants from escaping. The ants link to one another and as a group behave as a bulk material with viscoelastic properties. The elastic response is due to compliance in the linkages.
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a ball of ants
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It's an ant stress ball!!
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I can see putting that in a slingshot and using bullet ants as a non-lethal projectile.
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Saw about two or three black sheeps
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gives me the willies
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Ant playdoh
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amazing ....
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