Friend & Fellow ANT MAN
Jul 01, 2020
3 minutes
by Bert Hölldobler
A 6-foot-tall, bespectacled professor got down on his hands and knees and crawled along the ground. He had an aspirator in his mouth, sucking up Pheidole workers like an anteater.
My friend and colleague Ed Wilson was on a mission. That night, he needed soldiers for his taxonomic work, and he wasn’t having much luck finding them. After spending two weeks or so in the La Selva rainforest of Costa Rica, we had returned to the city of San José. It was the evening before our departure and return to Boston. Ed invited me to
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