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<blockquote data-quote="Daalbar" data-source="post: 793602" data-attributes="member: 10746">Oh... and slave-making ants are quite cool.There are many species. Each of these social parasites is specialized for raiding one or a few host ant species. Scouts find a nest and recruit a raiding party to it's location where they kill or drive out the adults, then grab all the pupae and larve they can and carry them back to their nest. They don't eat them, their in-house previous generation of slaves raise the brood to adulthood and make the foreign workers part of their colony. These stolen workers are added to the colony's workforce and do all of the everyday tasks that are required to maintain the nest. The slave-maker workers themselves do little more than sit around in the nest waiting for the next raid while they are fed and groomed by the enslaved workers. The most specialized species of slave-makers are so dependent&nbsp; that they have actually lost the ability to feed themselves if their slaves are removed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daalbar, post: 793602, member: 10746"] Oh... and slave-making ants are quite cool. There are many species. Each of these social parasites is specialized for raiding one or a few host ant species. Scouts find a nest and recruit a raiding party to it's location where they kill or drive out the adults, then grab all the pupae and larve they can and carry them back to their nest. They don't eat them, their in-house previous generation of slaves raise the brood to adulthood and make the foreign workers part of their colony. These stolen workers are added to the colony's workforce and do all of the everyday tasks that are required to maintain the nest. The slave-maker workers themselves do little more than sit around in the nest waiting for the next raid while they are fed and groomed by the enslaved workers. The most specialized species of slave-makers are so dependent that they have actually lost the ability to feed themselves if their slaves are removed. [/QUOTE]

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