futurebird ,
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Riches and Wonders is a song by The Mountain Goats that's secretly about being in ant in an colony.


my fav cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gdLDLlFc3M

futurebird OP ,
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Lest you think ants don't get drunk... well they do. Though Dorymyrmex always seems drunk and out of their minds ... that's just how they are.

justafrog ,
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@futurebird Basically anything which can get at concentrated sugar can get at the fermented product thereof.

And does.

futurebird OP ,
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Just to show how I've thought about this waaay too much:

The line in the song "I learn foreign & exotic terms of endearment with which to address you" is the only line not sung by an ant: this is the ant mimic rove beetle who lives with them... they had to learn to make the correct pheromones to make the ants like them.

wcbdata ,
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@futurebird I don't think I've ever empathized so much with a beetle.

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