01.27.06

Sifu ants

Posted in Humor at 4:28 pm by site admin

There is an interesting article at Scientific American on: Teacher Ants Show Students the Way to Food. The teacher ant leads the way and the student ant taps the leader with a hair periodically.

So why is this considered teaching? 1. Biologists define a teacher as any individual who sacrifices some potential gain in order to educate a naïve counterpart, and 2. The pupil signals the teacher when the “lesson” has been assimilated.

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