'If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our Patreon page where we\'ve got a variety of perks for our Patrons, including Simon\'s voice on your GPS and the ever requested Simon Whistler whistling package: https://www.patreon.com/TodayIFoundOut →Some of our favorites: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR0XuDegDqP10d4vrztQ0fVzNnTiQBEAA →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: A Giant African Elephant and the Truth About \"Jumbo\" https://youtu.be/WJg6gpHU9l4 In this video: While honey bees will collect and store their food in combs, certain species of ants take a different route, using the bodies of some of their fellow ants, often the larger bodied ants of the colony called “majors”, to store what they need. Worker ants bring the “honey” or “honeypot” ants things like nectar, water, body fluids and fats (from prey such as caterpillars and termites) to store in case of drought or other times where resources are scarce. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/05/some-ants-are-used-as-living-food-storage-vessels/ Sources: http://www.phenomenica.com/2010/12/ants-good-at-solving-complex-maths.html http://askabiologist.asu.edu/podcasts/ant-math http://www.phenomenica.com/2009/07/ants-more-rational-than-humans.html http://news.discovery.com/animals/ants-are-smarter-than-human-5th-graders-at-math-110411.html http://news.discovery.com/animals/photo-shows-suicide-bomber-ant-self-detonating.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/aug/18/zombie-carpenter-ant-fungus http://www.care2.com/greenliving/ants-turned-into-zombies-by-new-fungus.html# http://www.pestworldforkids.org/ants.html http://www.buzzle.com/articles/facts-about-ants.html http://www.livescience.com/8496-mind-controlling-parasites-date-millions-years.html http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/zombifying-ant-fungus/?pid=1060&viewall=true http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelytoky http://www.lingolex.com/ants.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_ant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_robotics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization http://www.sasionline.org/antsfiles/pages/honeyants/honey.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HoneyAnt.jpg'
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