naturalplastic wrote:
Wolfram87 wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Ants, wasps, bees and termites are social insects. They coordinate together in a manner that is not unlike humans except they are selfless.
Humans are social, these insects are eusocial.
Yes. Its a false analogy to compare humans with bees/wasps/termites.
A human city doesnt rely on one female to do all of the reproducing while the rest are "workers".
But...oddly enough there is one mammal that has evolved a social structure much like that of bees and ants. And its not humans. It is the African mole rat.
Speaking of strange "animal facts" the African mole rat is strange wrapped in strange!
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They've just discovered that one South American cockroach species is eusocial. Cockroaches are fairly sociable insects, but
Melyroida magnifica actually has queens and workers. Makes sense to me- cockroaches are the termites' closest relatives. (Bees, ants and social wasps are all closely related to each other, but not to termites.)
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