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Occasionally something will break an animal's brain and it will act oddly. Ants have something called an ant mill, where a platoon of army ants will begin to fo
by sandspar 3y ago
Occasionally something will break an animal's brain and it will act oddly. Ants have something called an ant mill, where a platoon of army ants will begin to follow their own pheromone tracks, marching in a never ending loop until they die of exhaustion.
- walterbell 3y agoAre such behaviors limited to specific geographic regions?
- croo 3y agoThese are not ants but many different species of animals are dying in a very strange manner. Please try to not think them all of just "fish" as this is kind of an understatement. For better understanding think about that in a forest every animal from the bat and squirrel to boar and wolf starts spinning then die. This is exactly that strange and under no circumstances should be written of by natural cause.
- tzs 3y agoSheep can get in a similar loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifbNL0t31Tw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifbNL0t31Tw
- sandspar 3y agoHumans must have similar things. I remember attending a soccer game, rather ambivalent about it since I wasn't a fan. However when our team scored, and the crowd erupted into celebration, I suddenly found myself standing up and roaring along with everyone else. It was like I had been hijacked. It felt great, definitely, but it was also unsettling.
- llamaimperative 3y agoNote how you have a perfectly sensible and not very alarming explanation of an ant mill? That’s what we’re lacking here. That’s the point.