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Illustrious_Alps_802 t1_iqqzztc wrote

Reply to comment by Reviewingremy in How do ants find their way back "home"? by DanieleJava

this might be a dumb question, but do all ants of the same colony share the same scent?

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Alas7ymedia t1_iqshf6r wrote

Yes, they are pretty much identical. Which is why they are so territorial: a foreign organism can take a pathogen to an ant colony and kill them all because they all have the same inmune system.

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