Shirley, you can't be serious
Submitted 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
KenOh@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
We live in a society
for ants
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The thing that makes him a clown is thinking the queen is in charge.
chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
But like who is in charge?
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s not really such a thing as ‘in charge’ for ants. The colony is a single multi-body organism.
hansolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
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her.
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They’re more or less clones, the queen is “in charge” because she’s a linchpin to the colony keeping going genetically.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Where is the idea that worker ants are clones coming from? They share about 75% of their genes. That’s a lot but far from more or less clones
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5ha99y@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
It is in their nature to work like this. They are specialised drones serving that exact purpose. The queen is btw no different. It is the DNA housing drone that produces all kind of drones. Their brains are pheromonally connected. Most possibly they share one brain (and consciousness) and are equipped for some brain parts “getting lost”. It is anthropomorphizing to assume that they act like a human kingdom, where the queen (or king) is the upmost of all things to achieve in one or the other way. Ants are also all female. Only drones for mating are male.
Ildsaye@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Where ants are concerned, drone refers specifically to the males who are born to mate and then die. The sterile females are called workers.
StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I’ve always heard to the referred to as male alates
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I ant serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Like the dogstar? Man I wish my parents had named me something cool…
jaykrown@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
But the proteins compel me.
janus2@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I love how the first clown makeup iteration was built in by nature of this being a false color EM
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Lol so many people in this thread have been brainwashed.
Do you y’all seriously believe in Ants??!??
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You could also make meme about queen working hard in hope for retirement :)
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Kropotkin in a nutshell
viertesauge@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
what happened to 40(?) percent of workers sitting idle to act as backups?
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Fun fact: must ant species’ workers are 0.01% genetically different than each other (ie. queen[s]:mate[s] ratio), and therefore are closer to clones than individual consciousnesses, strictly speaking. ☝🏼🤓
Redjard@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
morto@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
You’re mixing being a clone with being the same individual and sharing a mind, which are completely different things.
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Nah, the former is scientifically sound, and the latter is SciFi. 😝
lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
This is wrong. They get the same DNA father side because male ants are haploid (meaning they have one chromosome of each instead of a pair like diploids) but they get different genes from their mother so they are more closely related than human siblings but no where near your made up number. They are still 25% different
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
None of y’all used citations so everyone is wrong!
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
solidheron@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
So they’re boba Fett
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Some a boba-sized, even!
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s funny how different hypothetical scenarios already exist in nature.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I’m sorry to inform you that the fact is made up. It’s more like 25% in the case of ants. I wrote more in another comment.
But there are greenfly who can reproduce sexually or asexually. In the former case, they have two parents – boring. But females can just have daughters with the same genetics. They don’t lie eggs but are live bearing so they get pregnant when they choose to. And there isn’t an age limit. In fact they can be pregnant and their daughter is already pregnant before birth, all genetically identical.