More animal facts.
Prairie dogs, those little pups popping in and out of holes on vacant lots and rural rangeland, are talking up a storm. They have different "words" for tall human in yellow shirt, short human in green shirt, coyote, deer, red-tailed hawk and many other creatures.
There is an ant in Brazil that has a gland which causes the ant to explode like a bomb, spraying a sticky toxic
goo on everybody nearby. Now that's some hard core biology!
In the ant kingdom some ants are soldiers, or army ants. These soldier ants are so genetically designed to fight,
pinch, clamp and sting that their giant pinchers prevent them from feeding themselves. They must rely
on other ants to feed them.