Your aunt so fat...
Just a fun little article from The Washington Post.
Ants reflect society. Well in a small kind of way.
There is an ant in Argentina, the inch-long dinosaur ant, which is sort of divided up into a rich and poor class. As Marxists would say, the bourgeois and the proletariat. The way that scientists have figured this out is by calculating the body fat on these ants. The ones with the worst "jobs," or the physically intense jobs of the society, have the lowest amount of body fat. They work too hard to have time to lounge around and pack on the pounds.
"The ‘working poor’ are the most nutritionally stressed,” said Chad Tillburg of Linfield College in Oregon. “The fattest ants, the ones with the most power, have cushy jobs at the center of the nest."
I think this directly relates to real life. People who have the money and time aren't the ones you see at McDonalds 3-4 times a week. They are the people at the gym and the ones grocery shopping at Whole Foods, living the recommended healthy lifestyle.
I personally found this entertaining to see something along the lines of obesity and starvation applied to other groups of animals, not only the ones with drive-thrus.
