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Slave-making ant   /sleɪv-mˈeɪkɪŋ ænt/   Listen
Slave-making ant

noun
1.
An ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants.  Synonym: slave-maker.





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... a single slave (F. fusca), and she instantly set to work, fed and saved the survivors; made some cells and tended the larvae, and put all to rights. What can be more extraordinary than these well-ascertained facts? If we had not known of any other slave-making ant, it would have been hopeless to have speculated how so wonderful an instinct could ...
— On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Slave-making ant" :   sanguinary ant, Amazon ant, emmet, Polyergus rufescens, ant, Formica sanguinea, slave-maker, pismire


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