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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10957, 23 December 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)

Naturalists generally appear to have accepted the opinion that ants are not able to perceive any sounds that are audible to human'ears'; there are those who controvert this opinion. One investigator conducted careful experiments 'with foiir species of American ants, from which he deducted the con-clusion-that these species at least were able. to perceive sounds, but whether they did it by means of organs of hearing, or through the sense of touch being excited by atmospheric vibrations. he was unable to ascertain. This experimenter inclines to the opinion that ants really do hear, as sonic individuals showed a perception of the direction of the sound, such as that of a shrill whistle, and others, which were not disturbed when violently shaken in their glass prisons, seemed greatly to be perturbed bv shrill sounds.