MALAYSIA - Bamboo-nesting ants in the Malaysian rainforest areproviding their own type of flood damage control. New
research has shown that worker ants protect their nest
from flooding by drinking the water that has got in,
then head out the back and pee it away. Researchers
Ulrich Maschwitz and Joachim Moog of Frankfurt
University, Germany, discovered the method by watching
a colony at work in their lab. They dripped two
milliliters of colored water into the nest and watched
the ants literally squeeze out 3,030 droplets over two days.