INTELLIGENCE OF ANTS.
Professor Bonatelli, in a note tp the Venetian Institute, relates an incident showing > the reasoning powers of ants. He had ob> _ served a prooeasion ot the little insects '~ going and returning.from the branch of a> treo to a house touched by the latter. He cut the end twig, making a gap' of about half an inch between the tree and the wall, so that the ants could no longer pass. At the end of half an hour they had found ont that another twig of the tree, when moved by the breeze, came into contact with the wall every now and then. They immediately took advantage of this flying bridge and re-formed their procession, waiting each time for the moment of contact in order to pass.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9836, 20 September 1897, Page 4
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