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What I find interesting and not mentioned in the article is the implications that follow from the fact that coffee is not native to Fiji. So, either the ants ca
by has2k1 10y ago
What I find interesting and not mentioned in the article is the implications that follow from the fact that coffee is not native to Fiji. So, either the ants came with the coffee to Fiji having perfected the art in a different location. Or despite it so, that both species are 3 million years old, this behaviour is only a few hundred years old.
- KMag 10y agoI was wondering the same thing. My first thought was that perhaps here "coffee" is being used in this popular press article as a shorthand for a relative of the coffee plant, but I haven't been curious enough to dig up the five "coffee" species names and research them. I'm not particularly knowledgable about coffee (I'm not even sure if arabica is a sub-species or proper species), but I would be surprised if there are 5 proper species of coffee used commercially.
- detaro 10y agoThere are a lot of species in the genus Coffea, and multiple ones (not sure how many) are used commercially, but the vast vast majority (probably >98%) on the market is either robusta or arabica (which are different species).