04-07-2009, 05:12 PM
Quote:And the gold digging ants/termites/marmots/whatever, are very much on point.
Yea, what he said! besides I don't know how to move it.
Evidently, and not suprisingly, I see that others have made the connection to termites long before me. I did find a description of the "ants" by Pliny:"in color they resemble cats, but are the size of wolves." Sounds like a striped hyaena to me, see below compared to a Pakistani marmot. They must have simply conflated the hyaena and the termites in the mound they denned in.
Paul M. Bardunias
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
