The red ants
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The red ants
"The red fire ant lives under constant threat of annihilation from flash floods. Nature doesn't care; if a species wants to survive, it has to prove it can do so.
When the floods come, the fire ants hold on to each other, creating a living raft that can float until the water recedes-months, if necessary. So how does a species figure something like that out? Instinct? Trial and error? Was there one fire ant who was being swept away by the rushing water, and grabbed onto another ant, only to find out that TOGETHER, THEY CAN FLOAT?
What if you were the one who knew what needed to be done but had no words? How do you make the others understand? How do you call for help?....
Human beings are not the strongest species on the planet, we're not the fastest, and maybe not even the smartest.
The one advantage we have is the ability to cooperate-to help each other out. We RECOGNIZED ourselves in EACH OTHER, and are PROGRAMMED for COMPASSION, for heroism, for LOVE, and THESE THINGS make us STRONGER and FASTER, and SMARTER.
IT's why we survive. It's why we even want to."
(As told in VoiceOver by Jake in the television show "Touched"
When the floods come, the fire ants hold on to each other, creating a living raft that can float until the water recedes-months, if necessary. So how does a species figure something like that out? Instinct? Trial and error? Was there one fire ant who was being swept away by the rushing water, and grabbed onto another ant, only to find out that TOGETHER, THEY CAN FLOAT?
What if you were the one who knew what needed to be done but had no words? How do you make the others understand? How do you call for help?....
Human beings are not the strongest species on the planet, we're not the fastest, and maybe not even the smartest.
The one advantage we have is the ability to cooperate-to help each other out. We RECOGNIZED ourselves in EACH OTHER, and are PROGRAMMED for COMPASSION, for heroism, for LOVE, and THESE THINGS make us STRONGER and FASTER, and SMARTER.
IT's why we survive. It's why we even want to."
(As told in VoiceOver by Jake in the television show "Touched"
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