Animal Ingenuity: Fire Ant Rafts

Fire ants. Floating. Why, God, why?
Another fire ant raft. Very industrious, really. I still find them frightful.
Another look at how these living rafts work.
In this experiment, the scientist pushes the ball of floating fire ants under the water to demonstrate how they resurface.

If you have nightmares after viewing this, I guess you can blame me.

~Tempest~

Cross-posted to:
Animal Anarchy
The Sunday Picture