Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-15
INGENUITY OF ANIMALS WE KNOW LITTLE ABOUT

smallest at the TOP. Then they Will
bring quantities. OF dry leaves and
other similar material with which q
roof covering ,nny h made. Is not
this. on microscopic scale, TIL, RI.
OF our builders when they root over
building7 Nature scena every.
where 10 have anticipated the !nvcn.
ton" of which we boast and this IL
ono OF the most simple.
ANY encyclopedia will trll yon that
the ant, in proportion TO It's s.ac. IL
tho strongest OF all creatures: but,
until Mike Adele NJ. Ficllc mnao her
remarkable cSpcrimcntB In New York.
1t WAS not known how the ants zee
without eyes and hear without cara.
Her discoveries make the not tcniold
merc wonderful than anybody ever
imagined.
Projecting from the head OF every
ant are two tiny horns that are con.
tmunlly being waved In tho air. They
each have at tho end from four 10
- hNNN* itfihSs anu WHY 1Olll VI "
nose. One nose detects thu tdor OF
the home, another OF a relative. an.
other of a closc friend or ally. still
another detects an enemy. and 30 on.
Each ant inhcrit1 n peculiar and dls-
tlnct odor, Gu rather each family
does. and this is n substitute for color
and outline. Al for the second cn!g-
.-.htS1 riuy fl,n,
Flelde found by placing an ant nest
near plano and playing thereon.
that the creatures absolutely ignored
tho sound; but whom the nest wns
plnced on tho piano. presto. Il was
rs though an insect Pan had appear.
cd or tiny nihiilnt had tossed
bomb amid the colony by following
this limo OF experiment the amazing
fact WAS son established that ants
hear with their feet--tho most scns..
two feet IN thu world.
Among many o,hor interesting ROY.
Citations It upptnra that our own
brown ants arc moi only the moat In.
d'tstrions. but tho most air-it and
mastery architects OF tho nation. so
10 cay. Thia ant forms liza home in
Etor.eH rather less than half an inoh
In height On examining each story
separately, tho investigator saw
number OF carefully designed cavities
or lialls, lodges Il narrower d!men.
s'ons. and long corridors which Hcry.
Cd FOR general Communication. The
| ached ceilinga covering tho most spa
cious areas were supported either By
small column. slender walls. or reg-
,ilar buttrosaes. Ant houses frequent.
ly contain forty stories. hnli above
the earth gurtncN and half below: M
arrangement which enablcn tie ants
10 regulate tho Temperature 10 u
n,cety nnd With tho greatest oaso.
Recent attention hiA also bean paid
TO, the enisniatic parasol anita. wiioh
are known--tco we'll kIiown--in tho
Tropics because oi their destructive
habit OF clipping r.cces on, OF tho
leaves of trees and carrying thcrn
away TO their ncsts. but they haVn
q higher Industry. beNlda which EVEN
house Building aid harycRting are
Commonplace: that OF mixing inuaii-
room t'ads aiSt cuItIvatIns nusil,
s-,oms slch as fill n, very Important
place on their bin Of farc. Their mp
penrnnce when WORKING IS worry strik.
Ing, They move over the. ground IN
broad columns. which promptly and
rarodonably suggest tho scene In
Macbeth where BIrnam Wood n,ayei
on Duns!nanc, fer every ant bears In
its Jaws n, piece OF leaf; and tho II
regular. swayIns. streaming move
mont az Q myriad green bnnners
borne onward by tho hurrylns CO
horts is an astonishing spectacle.
Peters and Paper Makers
Provoking almost equal astoniah-
mant. however. arc many animal pot
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