
Day Four
February 17, 2010Here’s how things looked when I woke up on Day 4:
Despite the inefficiencies that I noticed yesterday, they still got a lot of work done in the last 24 hours. Everyone is working now, as well. Even the last holdouts have succumbed to industriousness.
I checked the ants again before leaving for work, and look at what is going on:
It looks like they’re trying to tunnel through Cooper’s Mound. Cooper spent a lot of time building that mound, and I’m not sure I understand why they would now be tunneling through it. I do think they liked using the open barn door to pass through to the back side of the habitat.
Here’s how things are looking at the end of Day 4:
Coopers mound has been partially restored and partially redistributed. Yeah, the ants are blurry in this shot – I am using a tripod for the full habitat time-series shots, and I didn’t realize that when the ants are that busy they’re moving too fast for my shutter speed.
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