Ciekawostka: There are 1 million ants for every human in the world

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Species Extirpation and Colonization Reveal Mixed Homogenization and Differentiation Across Terrestrial Taxa After One of the World's Largest Tailings Dam Failures.. In 2015, the failure of the Fundão tailings dam released ~45 million m 3 of liquefied tailings into Brazil's Doce River basin, contaminating ~670 km of waterways to the Atlantic Ocean. However, the biodiversity consequences of this event for terrestrial organisms remain poorly understood, particularly across multiple terrestrial taxonomic groups and through time. We assessed how direct and indirect exposure to mine tailings affected the abundance and diversity of plants, vertebrates (anurans and birds), and invertebrates (ants,…

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Dorylus, also known as driver ants, safari ants, or siafu, is a large genus of army ants found primarily in central and east Africa, although the range also extends to southern Africa and tropical Asia. The term siafu is a loanword from Swahili, and is one of numerous similar words from regional Bantu languages used by indigenous peoples to describe various species of these ants. Unlike the New World members of the former subfamily Ecitoninae (now Dorylinae), members of this genus form temporary subterranean bivouacs in underground cavities which they excavate and inhabit - either for a few days or up to three months. Also, unlike some New World army ants, driver ants are not specialized pr…

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