After-Orts #13

- zombie ants -
a fascinating article which introduced me to two splendid words, “gaster” and “necrophoric”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/opinion/sunday/zombie-ants.html

- another ant story -
When the ants of the species Myrmecina graminicola encounter danger while on a slope, they tuck into a ball and roll away
These Ants Have a Revolutionary Escape Strategy

- and a beetle story -
After getting swallowed by a frog, the beetle Regimbartia attenuata can scuttle down the amphibian’s gut and force it to poop, emerging soiled but alive.
There Are Two Ways Out of a Frog. This Beetle Chose the Back Door.

If they were a country, cows would rank as the world’s sixth-largest emitter of methane gas, ahead of Brazil, Japan and Germany.
The Business of Burps: Scientists Smell Profit in Cow Emissions