The rest of us, hackles raised, are compelled to flow around them, like an ant column confronting a stone.
Army ants advance in columns, audibly cracking the bodies of their insect prey.
At Kartabo Beebe discovered the phenomenon known as an ant mill, a column of ants following itself in an endless loop until nearly all of them died of exhaustion.
This carrier has recently been shown to bind cyclophilin D, similarly to ANT, in affinity-column and co-immunoprecipitation studies and may, therefore, contribute to cyclosporin A-sensitive mPTP in the absence of ANT [ 34, 35].
To validate the AMOVA results, we constructed a contingency table with columns representing ant species and rows fungal ITS haplotypes, and each cell containing the observed number of ant-fungal combination, so that possible patterns of specificity of randomness (independence) could be assessed with Fisher's exact test as implemented in R [ 53].
Columns of ants patrol the woods hunting insects, sometimes to the top of tall trees, and dragging their prey back to their nest.
Throughout the day, hundreds of pupils flow like columns of ants from classroom to playground and back again, always making room for the next group.
Schwenk says the lizards hunt for columns of foraging ants and then pick the ants off one by one with their darting tongues.
At night, my neighbor Teodora and I patrolled the gardens and the coconut grove with our lanterns, killing the swift columns of cutter ants, pouring kerosene into the nests of the ants who ate our tomatoes and green beans, lettuce and squash.
To various degrees, around eighteen species specialise in following columns of army ants to eat the small invertebrates flushed by the ants, and many others may feed in this way opportunistically.
