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Old 06-05-2006, 01:21 PM   #1
Undertoad
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6/5/2006: Ant world cup



It can't be. But in fact it is. Here you see the first World Cup played completely by ants. Japan versus Brazil.



According to the full story,
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In the wild, the ants recognize enemies by their pheromones. The organizers of the game used this natural ability to make the ants "ant-agonize" each other, by feeding the Japanese team with Kagoshima pork and the Brazilian team with spare ribs in order to alter the ants' pheromones.


It says the match ended in a draw, which I feel is totally unacceptable. It doesn't say what the score was, either. Shoddy journalism.
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