Ant – Doesn’t get sick because of the minority complex

2021-05-142021-05-14

Ant – Doesn’t get sick because of the minority complex

Ant – 100 million years of evolution has developed its characteristic features, social behavior, order, hierarchy and abundance unmatched in the entire animal kingdom. It is estimated that the weight of all ants on Earth is equal to the weight of all people. Formicidae form a family of insects belonging to the order Hymenoptera.

One ant has virtually no meaning, but a million colony of ants is a perfectly organized mass that knows what it wants and how to get it. They are among the most specialized insects that make up caste communities – in which each individual has a clearly defined task. The number of species is estimated at around 12,000, but some scientists say that it may be as much as 30,000. Probably even half of them are still not described.

40 thousand insects in one colony have a total of the same number of brain cells as one human. In relation to their body, they have the largest brain in the world. It accounts for about 6% of their total weight, while in humans the brain is about 2%. A queen can live over 20 years and sire up to 150 million descendants.

At night, they lay eggs and larvae deep into the anthill to protect them from the cold. During the day, they move them closer to the top of the nest to keep them warm. They can raise the temperature in the anthill 10 ° C above the ambient temperature. Temp. in the anthill there are ventilation shafts supervised by the worker caste.

Adult individuals are unable to chew and swallow solid food, therefore they eat the sweet juice squeezed out of the food. When the workers are full, after returning from hunting, they excrete some of the food for workers working in the nest.

List of Ants species:

– Gigantiops destructor – Has the ability to navigate

– Carpenter ant – Camponotus herculeanus – Builds nests in trees

– Brown-black carpenter ant – Camponotus ligniperda – Builds nests in decaying tree trunks

– Meadow ant – Formica pratensis – It is common throughout Eurasia

– Red wood ant – Formica rufa – It lives mainly in coniferous and mixed forests

– Yellow meadow ant – Lasius flavus – Extremely agile and durable insect

– Weaver ant – Oecophylla smaragdina – Often lives in symbiosis with caterpillars

– Inchman ant – Myrmecia forficata – It is big, fast and extremely aggressive

– European fire ant – Myrmica rubra – Queen is not much bigger than worker

Cicuta virosa – It is 150 centimeters high

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Cicuta virosa – It is 150 centimeters high

The highest concentration of toxic substances is found in its rhizome.

Deadly dose: 2g root
Death: within 24 hours
Poison: cicutoxin
Aftermath: degeneration of skeletal muscles
Where it grows: North and South America, Europe, Asia
Occurrence in Poland: yes

In North America it has hundreds of poisoned sheep per year on its conscience. People can mistake its root with the parsley root, and the most common victims of harmful substances are children. Cicutoxin works very quickly, after just a few minutes you can observe irritations of mucous membranes and abdominal pain. If a man survives poisoning, it is very likely that he will struggle with damage to the central nervous system for the rest of his life. Unlike other animals, mice can without fear of poisoning eat plant seeds.

Three most common allergies – Causes of allergy development

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Three most common allergies – Causes of allergy development

Three most common allergies – causes of allergy development – Regardless of what causes allergy,
it is always inadequate reaction of the body. Allergy is considered a disease of civilization.
Which affects approx. 20-30% of people, and this number is constantly growing.
Recent studies indicate that the risk of developing allergies carry the genes.

Food allergies: In the food allergy is caused primarily by protein. Allergens work even after heat treatment and after passing through the digestive tract. The spectrum of food allergies is very wide. Mostly allergic to eggs, fish, hazelnuts, milk, celery, fruit, vegetables, flour, peanuts, meat, potatoes and cocoa.

Pollen allergies: This is one of the most common types of allergies. Its occurrence is related to the flowering of plants, whose pollen is the patient’s allergen. Most often they are grass pollen, less common perennial, shrubs and trees. Sometimes the disease persists throughout the year, but during the flowering of the plant. Symptoms such as swelling of the mucous membranes, rhinitis, tearing, and breathing difficulties occur.

Animal allergies: The most common is allergy to cats, dogs, rabbits, hamsters, horses and exotic birds. Allergens in this case are skin or fur. However, allergens can also cause faeces, urine and saliva of animals.

Aggression among animals – Defending the young

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Aggression among animals – Defending the young

Aggression among animals – Many species of animals avoiding battles, shows aggression usually defending the defenseless young. Musk oxen during the attack of wolves to protect offspring by surrounding them with a circle – forming on the outside wall with sharp corners. Blackbirds attack cats located near their outlet. Sow boar in fear of children can compel a man to flee to the tree.

Territorial behavior – Fighting for supremacy

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Territorial behavior – Fighting for supremacy

Territorial behavior – The primary manifestation of aggressive behavior of animals is called. territorial behavior. Each species has its own territory, the living space. It provides them with the right resources present in the area. The most important of these is food (including water), the presence of the opposite sex partner and a suitable place to nest, burrow or other accommodation.

Tanzania Udzungwa mountains monkeys

2017-01-152017-09-23

Tanzania Udzungwa mountains monkeys

Tanzania Udzungwa mountains monkeys – Researchers from the University of New York. Studied in the Udzungwa Mountains in Tanzania population of monkeys Gerez. Studies have shown that environmental changes threaten the animals chief much more than previously assumed. Danger constitute both a decreasing area of forests, as well as grinding them into smaller areas at the expense of farmland.

Protected animals Afghanistan

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Protected animals Afghanistan

Protected animals Afghanistan – Under the protection of the law is currently 48 species of animals. Recently, into the Red Book of the country entered 15 new endangered species. Together with the smallest bird of the world – Acrocephalus hiwae (so far resulted only two specimens).

Lake Baikal bottom – Russian mini-submarine Mir-2

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Lake Baikal bottom – Russian mini-submarine Mir–2

Lake Baikal bottom – In July, 2008. Russian mini-submarine Mir–2 reached located at a depth of 1637 m the bottom of the Siberian Lake Baikal. It was the deepest immersion in fresh water in history. Lake Baikal contains 20% of the world‘s fresh water. The lake that formed approx. 20 million years ago, living approx. 1000 unique species of animals and plants. During immersion, scientists collected samples at different depths of the ecosystem so that they could determine the impact of global warming on the lake.

Papua New Guinea

2017-01-072017-09-25

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea – Although only takes a 462,840 square kilometers, according to current statistics, the country lives 6-8% of all species of living organisms on Earth. The report of the international conservation organization World Wide Fund (WWF) shows that in the years 1998-2008 in New Guinea and in the immediate vicinity were discovered 1,060 new species of animals.

Eye evolution – Development of sight

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Eye evolution – Development of sight

Eye evolution – Development of sight – We see the world around us through opsins – proteins containing photosensitive dyes, produced by the receptors of the retina. In humans and other animals with type chordates – Branchiostoma lanceolatum, fish, amphibian, reptile or bird. The variety is known as c–opsin. Meanwhile, in arthropods and cephalopods – so the spiders and octopuses. This is the function differently built r-opsin. So it looks as if nature created two different ways of development of sight, at a very early stage of evolution.

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Ant – Doesn’t get sick because of the minority complex

List of Ants species:

Cicuta virosa – It is 150 centimeters high

Three most common allergies – Causes of allergy development

Aggression among animals – Defending the young

Territorial behavior – Fighting for supremacy

Tanzania Udzungwa mountains monkeys

Protected animals Afghanistan

Lake Baikal bottom – Russian mini-submarine Mir–2

Papua New Guinea

Eye evolution – Development of sight

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