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Life Sciences => Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution => Topic started by: thedoc on 08/06/2010 17:38:23

Title: How do ants decide roles within the colony?
Post by: thedoc on 08/06/2010 17:38:23
It’s an incredibly complicated world inside an ant colony, with different types of ant doing lots of different jobs.  But how does an ant know what role to take?  Dr Elva Robinson explains more...
Read a transcript of the interview by clicking here (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/1339/)
or [chapter podcast=2583 track=10.06.06/Naked_Scientists_Show_10.06.06_6418.mp3](https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenakedscientists.com%2FHTML%2Ftypo3conf%2Fext%2Fnaksci_podcast%2Fgnome-settings-sound.gif&hash=f2b0d108dc173aeaa367f8db2e2171bd) Listen to it now[/chapter] or [download as MP3] (http://nakeddiscovery.com/downloads/split_individual/10.06.06/Naked_Scientists_Show_10.06.06_6418.mp3)