Saturday, September 16, 2006
Super Boingy Ants!
I was listening to the radio, and they started talking about these crazy ants. The mandibles or jaws of these insects are the fastest known moving part of an animal anywhere. "When the two mandibles snap together, they generate a force about three hundred times stronger than gravity, and reach a speed up to 64 m/s." While this is cool in itself, check out this video (edit - 3 actually!) of what they can do! It is pretty amazing. The radio show I got this from is Quirks and Quarks.