Parasite Rex, Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures by Carl Zimmer

Author:Carl Zimmer
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-05-23T05:38:13+00:00

The secret to parasitizing ants this way is creating illusions of smell. Ants depend mainly on smells to perceive the world, and they've evolved a complicated vocabulary of airborne chemicals to communicate with each other— to lay down food trails, to set off a colony-wide alarm, to recognize each other as nestmates. Teleutomyrmex can fool their hosts into caring for them rather than eating them because they can produce signals that make their hosts perceive them as queens themselves. The reason why Teleutomyrmex can cast these spells is probably that they evolved from their own host, turning their common language against their kin.

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