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Eugene Marais betrachtet einen gesamten Termitenbau wörtlich als ein einzelnes Lebewesen, auf Englisch als composite being. © Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni, 1831-1903 Harper & Brothers. pbl ☛
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Eugene Marais betrachtet einen gesamten Termitenbau wörtlich als ein einzelnes Lebewesen, auf Englisch als composite being. Das Bild stammt aus dem Buch: My Apingi kingdom : with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c. Originalbeschriftung kurz vor und nach dem Bild im Originalbuch: "instead of carrying it off, wentaway, and disappeared in search of more enemies to con-quer. In the combat, every where, there was nothingbut fighting, and it was no childs play, for many andmany lost their lives in the conflict; it was a regularpitched battle, and I must say 1 was perfectly astonishedat the bravery of these white ants. By this fight I discovered that the vulnerable point ofthe termites is the abdomen; it is evident that theirpowerful pincer-jaws are made for wounding and pier-cing, while the structure of the workers show their shortpincers are made for the purpose of labor, and that theyare not great fighters. Nothing astonished me more inthose deadly combats than their impetuous mode of at-tack. The weaker species knew the vulnerable point ofhis formidable enemy, who was frequently too busy fight-ing to know what was going on round it, and could notprotect itself. A farther examination showed me that the mushroom-like cap of the whole edifice I had demolished was [...] BUILDING MATERIAL OF THE WHITE ANTS. ^o posed of both black and yellow cells. This curious mix-ture of two species, each building its own cells in thesame establishment, astonished me. After this fight I went to see what had become of thebuildings I had partly demolished the day before, andthe operations of which had -been closed at once by thewhite ants to keep the light out and enemies from get-ting in. My astonishment was great when I saw thatthey had, during the night, built the structures exactlyas they were before I destroyed them. They continuedto rebuild in the original shape, but during the daytimethey only closed the cells. I noticed that now and thensome of the workers brought in their pincers very largegrains of sand or minute pebbles, and deposited them inthe mud, and several of the cells I demolished were filledwith these little pebbles. Strange to say, the termites called workers have noth-ing else to do but to work and work, while the soldiers,apparently, have nothing [...]" Source
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