What Sound Does An Ant Make?
Ant language sounds wacky—and can be hacked.
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Paper on Beetles Mimicking Ant Sounds:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Di Giulio A, Maurizi E, Barbero F, Sala M, Fattorini S, Balletto E, et al. (2015) The Pied Piper: A Parasitic Beetle’s Melodies Modulate Ant Behaviours. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0130541. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0130541
Paper on Paussus favieri Behavior:
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/psyc...
Emanuela Maurizi, Simone Fattorini, Wendy Moore, and Andrea Di Giulio, “Behavior of Paussus favieri(Coleoptera, Carabidae, Paussini): A Myrmecophilous Beetle Associated with Pheidole pallidula (Hymenoptera, Formicidae),” Psyche, vol. 2012, Article ID 940315, 9 pages, 2012. doi:10.1155/2012/940315
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Host, Producer, Editor
Anna Rothschild
Writer, Researcher
Elizabeth Preston
Animator, Illustrator
Mark Gartsbeyn, Anna Rothschild
Additional Help
Janet DiFilippo
Camera, Sound
Gil Kaplan
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Original Footage
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FOOTAGE AND STILLS
Ant Licking Video & Beetle with Queen
© 2012 Emanuela Maurizi et al.
Additional Images of Ants
Courtesy Dr. Andrea Di Giulio
Ant-Man Gif
Ant-Man (2015) Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
SFX
Cockroaches
Freesound/StateAardvark
(used with permission from author)
Squeak Pack/squeak_10
Freesound/Corsica_S
Ant Sounds
© 2015 Di Giulio et al.
Wink
Freesound/Bennychico11
Cough Cough Sniff Sniff
Freesound/Harrypeeks
Sipping A Juice Box
Freesound/Trundlefly
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