Watch how ants escape from certain spaces by building build a tower-like structure with their bodies. Often, these venomous insects build these temporary structures around blades of grass or other flimsy structures. But unlike the Iron Lady, ants don’t have Alexandre Gustave Eiffel designing their towers. They then observed the ants build towers in small tubular containers, and used an X-ray to get a see what was going on inside the tower. The researchers discovered, perhaps unsurprisingly, that the ants don’t have a grand plan a la Mr. Eiffel.

Source: Washington Post July 13, 2017 07:22 UTC