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Quentin Wheeler PhD's avatar

Safety in numbers. I like it.

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William Shear's avatar

I wonder if the authors considered the possibility that the mimicry might be directed not to the host termites but to their predators. "Always hide among a lot of the same things." After all, the termites do not use vision and even if they did, would never view the mimic from above.

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