What behaviors in ants seem particularly human?
They outdo us in the amount of effort they put into environmental health and social welfare. Colonies of leafcutter ants put their trash in their innermost chambers that can be huge and take years to construct. It’s equivalent to how we store nuclear waste [in the deepest places in the ground]. This level of effort tells us something about a topic we’re just beginning to recognize as important, in terms of how we invest in dealing with waste.
