Twitter Thread: Putting Trix In An Ant Farm And Ants' Weird Habits

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Jan 4, 2022 12:00 PM EST

There is so much that we have yet to learn about animals, and we constantly on the lookout, wanting to learn new things. It just so happens that when you're looking for info about animals on the internet, you will find out some weird things. For example, we have discovered that sometimes, octopuses punch fish for no reason other than spite. And did you know that elephants holds funerals for their dead? And also that parrots can perfectly mimic their owners' accents? 

Animals are amazing - every single one of them. Even the tiniest ones are able to surprise us. Like when we found out that tiny opossums can and will dramatically infiltrate shelters. And today, we found out that… ants don't like Trix. Yes, the cereal. And apparently, there's a real reason for that. And also, it's not the only food that ants have deemed unworthy. 

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    Font - octopus/caveman @OctopusCaveman My son put some Trix in his ant farm. Instead of eating them, the ants dug up all of the dead ants in the farm and piled them on top of the Trix. Not sure what that means but l'm not eating Trix anymore. 8:59 PM - Dec 29, 2021 - Twitter for iPhone 18.7K Retweets 972 Quote Tweets 232.8K Likes
    via @OctopusCaveman

    Good lord, if even ants have deemed Trix unworthy… perhaps we should reconsider eating it as often and as much as we do. Hahaha, kidding, Trix is love, Trix is life. Trix is childhood and wholesomeness and good feels, and yes, it might end us sooner, but at least we'll be full of Trix when it does. 

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    Font - octopus/caveman @OctopusCaveman ... dude I don't know why people love this ant farm content but I'm thinking of making an account just to do daily updates 11:58 PM Dec 29, 2021 · Twitter Web App 65 Retweets 5 Quote Tweets 11K Likes
    via @OctopusCaveman

    We would love to see more ant farm content. Ants are definitely 100% an animal that does not get enough shine. For a reason… But still! If ant content is anything like this Trix thread, we would be more than happy to read more of it. Not sponsored by Trix, by the way *wink*. 

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    Font - octopus/caveman @OctopusCaveman when I die, bury me in Trix so the bugs don't eat me 1:46 AM - Dec 30, 2021 - Twitter Web App 204 Retweets 7 Quote Tweets 11.6K Likes
    via @OctopusCaveman
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    Organism - octopus/caveman @OctopusCaveman ... Trix and Spinach graveyard 2:27 AM - Dec 30, 2021 - Twitter for iPhone 143 Retweets 6 Quote Tweets 9,712 Likes
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    Font - octopus/caveman @OctopusCaveman In case anyone was curious, we gave them a McDonalds fry tonight and it went right on the death pile. 6:29 AM - Dec 30, 2021 - Twitter for iPhone 154 Retweets 11 Quote Tweets 8,207 Likes
    via @OctopusCaveman
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    Font - @SkyeSharkie Replying to @OctopusCaveman I found the actual reason... apparently oleic acid is the substance that makes ants aware of death and makes them pick up the dead bodies.... turns out Trix are full of canola and sunflower oil which are 61% and 20-80% oleic acid respectively. 6:02 AM - Dec 30, 2021 - Twitter for Android 818 Retweets 72 Quote Tweets 16.2K Likes
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    Font - maria garcia @tulipsmg ... Replying to @SkyeSharkie and @OctopusCaveman cool fun fact on the death rituals of Ants and oleic acid Two days after death, the tiny ant corpse begins emitting a chemical called oleic acid. To an ant, the smell of oleic acid equals death. The experience of death is not a sense of loss, not a dead body, not an ascent to ant afterlife- it is simply oleic acid. As soon as the living ants smell the oleic acid smell, they spring into action, carrying the tiny decayi
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    Font - Tanya Gonzalez @reinadelhadas Replying to @OctopusCaveman I read about a scientific experiment where some researchers put the pheromone that smells like death on ants to observe their behavior. The smelly ant would be taken by their peers to the corpse heap or they would walk there themselves and just sit, convinced they had died. 1:40 AM - Dec 30, 2021 - Twitter for Android 866 Retweets 138 Quote Tweets 27.1K Likes
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    Font - Colin ... @lowericon Replying to @OctopusCaveman If you leave butter outside, it will be covered in ants in minutes. If you leave margarine outside, they won't touch it. 12:52 AM - Dec 30, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone 127 Retweets 14 Quote Tweets 5,994 Likes
    via @lowericon
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    Font - Kev Weldon @KevWeldon Replying to @lowericon and @OctopusCaveman Gotta say it's nice to finally have some common ground with ants. 1:29 AM - Dec 30, 2021 - Twitter for Android 94 Retweets 1 Quote Tweet 10.5K Likes
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    Font - Intricate Expanses @Intricatexpanse ERR Replying to @OctopusCaveman Trix is for kids, and the ants know it. p.s. ants are scent/pheromone driven, so apparently Trix smells like ant corpses. Malic acid, probably. 11:10 PM · Dec 29, 2021 - Twitter Web App 48 Retweets 2 Quote Tweets 4,740 Likes
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    Font - beforedawn @beforedawnfan Replying to @OctopusCaveman If I die young, Bury me in Trix. Lay me down on a bed of spinach. Sink me in the river of Styx. Send me away with my fellow insects. 5:07 AM - Dec 30, 2021 - Twitter for Android 99 Retweets 4 Quote Tweets 2,183 Likes
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    Font - NotNow @DonJickson Replying to @OctopusCaveman and @PFTompkins I had a friend who had to ditch the trailer he was living in while building his house because of a huge snow He had left some Kraft cheese n crackers in there. In the spring, when they shoveled it out, the mice had eaten all the crackers & not touched a single bit of the cheese 1:33 AM - Dec 30, 2021 - Twitter for Android 28 Retweets 2,005 Likes
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    Font - internal santoku @Zachery12058184 Replying to @DonJickson @OctopusCaveman and @PFTompkins Kraft “cheese" 2:29 AM - Dec 30o, 2021 - Twitter for iPhone 7 Retweets 1,063 Likes
    via @Zachery12058184
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    Natural foods - MK-Cooltra ... @noseas_bobo Replying to @OctopusCaveman This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. 4:50 AM Dec 30, 2021 - Twitter for iPhone 208 Retweets 3 Quote Tweets 4,544 Likes
    via @noseas_bobo

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