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Published online 13 October 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news001019-1
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Close encounters
Bellowing "get off my land" at a trespassing ant will do no good at all. You'd do better to get right up close and whisper, Philip Ball finds.
Ants sense each other's whispers with their antennae, researchers propose in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America1. This insight into ant 'hearing' could help scientists use sound to protect crops against ant infestations.
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