Ants communicate by 'kissing'




    Ants are able to communicate each other by "kissing". The insect pressures regularly exchange their mouths together to moisture.
    The saliva they convey, contains, among other substances that affect how many food young ants eat. 
    That researchers in Switzerland report in the scientific journal eLife.
    The behavior where ants pressing their mouths together called trophallaxis. In this activity, the animals share food. Until now, it was not yet known that the activity is also a form of communication.
    Scientists from the University of Lausanne gathered the moisture that ants exchanged by the kiss movements and analyzed the molecules in the saliva. 
    The study shows that the "kiss moisture" sometimes contains a hormone whose larvae eat more so that their body is developing rapidly. Young ants who receive the mote, become twice as big as ants do not get the hormone.
    "This discovery indicates that the ants collectively determine how their colony develops by certain hormones and molecules to transfer mouth to mouth". said lead researcher Adria LeBoeuf on news site Phys.org.
    "The moisture ants exchange does not only affect their digestive Trophallaxis is in part also use as a communication channel that ants influence the development of their young. "
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